Fedora Extras is extra

Marc Schwartz MSchwartz at MedAnalytics.com
Sun Nov 28 22:46:46 UTC 2004


On Sun, 2004-11-28 at 23:31 +0100, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am So, den 28.11.2004 schrieb William M. Quarles um 23:24:
> 
> > Well, Fedora is hypothetically cutting and bleeding edge, but quite 
> > frankly a lot of the packages that show up in it are out of date.  The 
> > need for these maintainers to supply updated packages just points more 
> > strongly at the fact that Fedora is running behind on some packages, and 
> > updates are necessary for other software to be useful with it.
> 
> Can you be specific and give quite some examples for the "lot of ...
> packages ... out of date"?
> 
> > William
> 
> Alexander

Alexander,

I certainly cannot state that many packages are out of date, but as a
result of a recent discussion in another community, I can point out that
the current readline package (readline-4.3-13) is out of date, as
readline-5.0 was released back in July.

That's one anyway...

Regards,

Marc Schwartz





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