Proposal: Rolling Release

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Tue Nov 11 17:58:57 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 18:41 +0100, Matej Cepl wrote:
> On 2008-11-11, 16:06 GMT, Les Mikesell wrote:
> > The point of using any distribution instead of rolling your own 
> > linux from scratch is that others theoretically have worked 
> > together to make sure that everything is compatible. If 
> > a distro doesn't arrange for this kind of cooperation it can't 
> > provide what users need and expect.
> 
> I know that I shouldn't feed a troll, but I couldn't resist -- in 
> my not so humble opinion, most of the third party repos (except 
> for the one, which I cannot name here) are more or less products 
> of the time when it was difficult to put new packages into Fedora 
> proper (yes, there were times before Extras). Now, I really don't 
> see the reason, why you cannot take your package (except for the 
> pesky legal reasons, but less put that aside) and put that 
> package into Fedora.
> 
> Do I miss anything?
Yes, it often is MUCH easier to run a 3rd party repo than to try getting
a package into Fedora.

Ralf






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