On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 02:06:12PM +0200, drago01 wrote:
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Richard W.M. Jones
<rjones(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 09:58:53PM -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>> 2010/9/20 MichaĆ Piotrowski <mkkp4x4(a)gmail.com>:
>> > 2010/9/21 Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger(a)gmail.com>:
>> >> As the concept of using third party repositories (both as packagers and
as
>> >> users) grows, this interdependence will grow.
>> >
>> > Ok, so maybe it's time to setup Fedora "backports" repo for
these that
>> > wants new and shiny Firefox 4, PostgreSQL 9 or whatever with big
>> > number.
>>
>>
>> What exactly is the fear here with these updates? Are there many
>> desktop users who do NOT want the latest released Firefox? Are there
>> many people using Fedora as their OS for their database server?
>
> Maybe we should turn this around and ask why more people don't
> use Rawhide.
Well "use rawhide" for anything else than testing and/or developing
the new release just do not fly.
If you read the second part of what I said, you'll see that I
proposed a way to address some of these issues.
Some of the reasons I can think of:
1) To high rate of changes / breakage
2) No signed packages
3) Slower kernel
4) To much of "manual fixing" required
5) To many broken deps, which might prevent applying updates and security fixes
6) Some others that I can't think of right now might be a consequence
of the above or something else
Rich.
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