Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

[Bill Nottingham]

Matthew Garrett (mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org) said: 
> Patches that cleanly decouple Anaconda from the entire software stack 
> that it runs on top of would probably be received with open arms, but 
> nobody who works on it has any idea how to implement them.

In fact, this is what has been done in anaconda over the past couple of
releases - Anaconda migrated from having its own boot and init
infrastructure to using system-provided items such as dracut and systemd.
But that's complicated work, and while you're doing that migration, you're
doing a lot of arbitration as to what bits are in generic dracut, what
bits are in generic systemd, and what bits remain in anaconda. And during
that process, you are *very* tied to the version of the underlying system,
until the work is fully complete and there is a defined separation of
features into each layer.

This, incidentally, also is why running the F17 installer on F19 isn't
practical.

Bill