Proposal: Rolling Release

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Tue Nov 11 16:39:01 UTC 2008


Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>
>>> How does that answer my question? Let me repeat. I've asked what policy it
>>> is that "forced a horribly fractured 3rd party repository situation"? I'm
>>> not aware of any such policy.
>> All I can say is that with Ubuntu you can pick vendor drivers and Sun Java
>> 1.5 from the software management tool and you almost never have to worry
>> about conflicts among packages from the different repositories. I've
>> repeatedly requested these things in fedora and been repeatedly told it
>> wasn't going to happen.
> 
> 
> And so you troll every thread looking to inject your negativity into
> it, no matter what.

Would you rather just pretend fedora is perfect, supplies everything all 
users will ever need, and never ships a package with bugs that needs to 
be backed out?  Or that no other approaches to these problems can be better?

-- 
   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell at gmail.com




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