fedup for F23 and beyond

Kevin Fenzi kevin at scrye.com
Thu May 28 21:38:58 UTC 2015


On Thu, 28 May 2015 17:32:24 -0400
Matthew Miller <mattdm at fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 03:05:03PM -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > In some kind of ideal world it would be great if rawhide was the
> > rolling release and people who liked that model could use it day to
> > day. (Which is really already the case, but things do break so you
> > need to be good at troubleshooting and/or have alternatives in case
> > the thing you normally use breaks). 
> 
> Well, and as someone just pointed out to me, fairly enough, on Reddit,
> Rawhide is often a rolling release of the latest prerelease dev
> versions of software, and we don't really have a rolling release of
> the latest stable versions (except to the extent that people push
> these as updates, which is quite a lot).

Sure, agreed. 

Although there's a lot of stable releases of things that flow into
rawhide too in cases where upstream doesn't have a development branch
or the maintainer(s) decide something is not stable enough. 
Of course gnome, kernel, mesa and such are prereleases a good part of
the time. 

kevin


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