The future of "rawhide" (was [Fwd: Re: "What is the Fedora Project?"])

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Sat Oct 24 01:58:39 UTC 2009


Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> The impression I got (which might be wrong), is that it was expected that
> people would test specific packages from rawhide and not be expected to
> be running it all at once.

That just doesn't work. The network of dependencies and reverse dependencies 
generally ends up dragging in half of the distro after the first core 
library soname bump (e.g. OpenSSL, OpenLDAP or the like).

        Kevin Kofler




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