If someone has enough interest in backporting something from a newer release, we can set up a personal repo on the repos.fedorapeople.org. Just like firefox4 and yum-rawhide repo.
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:59:06 -0400,
Brandon Lozza <brandon@pwnage.ca> wrote:
> However, if for example Microsoft had a similar system and did packageUnexpectedly changing the UI is also bad.
> software for it. Their users would be up in arms for the latest
> firefox too and Microsoft wouldn't keep them on an old firefox
> version. Where is the logic in NOT having the latest software as long
> as it doesn't break file format compatibility? On windows the user can
Alternate repos are possible, but take work. Fedora doesn't have spare
> Look at openSUSE, GCC 4.5, came out before F13, no banning of LTO. If
> you want something better than stable for KDE you can one click
> install the factory KDE repo. You can one click install the trunk repo
> too. They even have two Chromium branches available for single click
> install (version 6 and 7). Perhaps a single click or easy method of
> installing a yum repo could be invented that is similar to the one in
> openSUSE. That would be a good start.
capacity to be doing this sort of thing right now. If you want to make it
happen, you can by leading and working on a project to do that. As long
as you are willing to work and can get a at least a few like minded
volunteers also willing to work you should have at least some success.
People here aren't against having a way to install alternate versions of
packagers per se, but are noting that there is a significant amount of
work needed. And many of us think there are better ways to be spending
our limited time helping Fedora. But if it is a high priority for other
people willing to do the work, it's something that could be done.
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