Core + Exrtas 2

[Kevin Kofler]

Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 <at> freenet.de> writes:
> > That language may be a bit too strong, as I can think of cases where an
> > essential update may end up breaking ABI, though it's not unreasonable to
> > to make policy such that it *should* (not must) be avoided.
> Well, this "must" is the core point about all this - Fedora should be a
> stable distro.
> 
> Where would be the difference to rawhide, otherwise?

* Less bugs (because stuff usually got through Rawhide and/or updates-testing 
before, and also because updates which are known to break stuff are not pushed 
to the stable distro).
* Less dependency problems within packages shipped by Fedora (as 
in "reverse-dependencies get rebuilt for the ABI change and pushed together 
with the ABI-changing library update", not as in "ABIs never change"; the 
Core/Extras merger will probably make it easier to coordinate ABI changes in 
core packages, so the lag between a core library update and all packages 
getting rebuilt can in principle be made invisible to the user through 
coordination of the pushes).

        Kevin Kofler