Where are all the updates gone?

[Rahul Sundaram]

Res wrote:
>>>
>>> This is the funny thing, Fedora tots itself as "bleeding edge"
>>
>> Where?
> 
> Read the archives, I was repeatedly shot down with the 'bleeding edge 
> technology' line when I complained about lilo's complete removal.

What folks say here cant be taken as Fedora toting anything. It is just 
some user opinions. Lilo got dropped because there was no one has been 
interested in maintaining it and due to Grub being more capable as the 
default boot loader. It has nothing to do with being "bleeding edge". If 
you want lilo, you are free to maintain it. See 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras.

> I see a bit more than 10%, and within that 10% is very very common and 
> heavily used everyday programs, lets see how long it takes something like
> apache and sendmail and bind to be updated :)

Doesnt take away your claim that Fedora only provides backports. That is 
completely wrong. At any rate, Apache, sendmail and bind upstream 
development itself moves slowly since these are more mature components 
that doesnt require changes more often. Any update has to be balanced 
against the benefits vs potential disruptiveness. If there is a 
compelling need for any package update to be provided, you can request 
the maintainer using bugzilla.

Rahul