reviving Fedora Legacy

[Jeffrey Ollie]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 9:41 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
>>
>> Long term stability is achieved by *NOT ADDING NEW FEATURES*.  *ADDING
>> NEW FEATURES INTRODUCES NEW BUGS*
>
> But that's generally an upstream issue. The bugs get fixed upstream but in
> general the new releases aren't included in RHEL/Centos updates even after
> the updated program becomes less buggy that the shipped version. (Firefox
> and OO being recent, rare exceptions).

Unfortunately, upstream developers don't always release bugfix-only
releases.  Many times they introduce new features or change the
behavior of old features.  Introducing new features means that there
are probably new bugs which is bad for distributions like RHEL/CentOS.
 Changing the behavior of old features is just as bad for RHEL/CentOS
because people are building systems that expect the old behavior.

-- 
Jeff Ollie

"You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then
I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the
terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve
them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and
unfairness of the universe."

	-- Marcus to Franklin in Babylon 5: "A Late Delivery from Avalon"