Proposal: Rolling Release

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Tue Nov 11 17:42:33 UTC 2008


Les Mikesell wrote:
> Michael Schwendt 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. 

If you meant proprietary drivers, just say it. "vendor drivers" is 
confusing since several of the drivers in the kernel and xorg are vendor 
supported and developed and available in the repository without conflicts.

Rahul




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