[Fedora-marketing-list] fedora legacy

[Rahul Sundaram]

Chitlesh GOORAH wrote:
> On 12/19/06, Greg Dekoenigsberg wrote:
>> 3. The emergence of CentOS as the distro of choice for most users who 
>> need
>> a longer update cycle than 13 months.
>>
>> Not ideal -- but the community has the power to resurrect Legacy, if they
>> so choose.  Fedora Unity, for instance, could very well run their own
>> version of the Legacy project.  Realistically, though: without a
>> substantial number of Legacy volunteers, the Legacy project is just not
>> viable.  Especially when compared to CentOS.
> 
> If it happens that fedora is closing down, Fedora Legacy, is there a
> chance to work with Centos so that those fedora versions which were
> supposed to be directed to Legacy be tuned _automatically_ to work
> with centos repositories ?

It wont work that way. CentOS repositories since they are rebuilds of 
RHEL will likely carry older versions of software with backported fixes. 
  Pointing Fedora to CentOS repositories doesnt make any sense at all. 
They are two different variants.

Rahul