[Fwd: Wikipidia - Goodbye Red Hat and Fedora]

[Ralph Angenendt]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> But the first question should be why a separate community is necessary.  
> Why is it not possible for one of fedora's goals to be to provide a  
> clean transition to RHEL or Centos at the end of certain development  
> cycles, 

That point would have been FC6 alpha (or something like that) for RHEL 5. 
So you would have an alpha release from which you could do the transition. 

Everything (or mostly everything) else in FC6 after that point is newer than
the stuff you'd find in RHEL. How do you want to switch from there to RHEL? 

> at which point EPEL/Rpmfusion, etc. would be unnecessary as  
> separate entities since that fedora cycle's repository would be directly  
> usable as-is and would simply need to be maintained instead of the  
> various 3rd party versions that have been necessary to fill this void?

No, it wouldn't as stuff probably would require newer versions of base 
packages than are available in RHEL. 

I do not think that what you suggest is even remotely possible given the
development cycles of Fedora and the ones of Red Hat Enterprise.

And I don't think it is necessary.

Ralph
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