<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 12:52, Jonathan Corbet <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:corbet-ft@lwn.net">corbet-ft@lwn.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
One wonders...what is rawhide for if we're not supposed to run it?<br></blockquote><div><br>I'm not a Fedora packager but I do read these mailing lists consistently and it's pretty clear from discussion in the past few weeks that the situation is--essentially--the following:<br>
<br>In an ideal world, rawhide would be updated at the same time that F15 is. However, because some packagers and, indeed, entire teams are focused exclusively on the F15 branch, large sections of rawhide are months behind the packaged versions in F15 branch.<br>
<br>For GNOME, that effectively means that you're running some mixture of alpha-level, beta-level, and final-level code none of which is getting any testing in the mixed state that you're running it in. That's a recipe for the kind of pain that you're experiencing.<br>
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