On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 11:39 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
But we're providing an operating system, not just a bunch of
packages.
What if some group's written their own kernel module for their own
purposes, rolled it out to all their systems, and doesn't expect an
official update to make them re-write it? Same question for KDE -
someone writes a tool for their group based on some KDE libraries,
doesn't expect an update to come along and do a major KDE version bump
and break some interface the tool relied on...reducing the question to
'are all the packages we care about okay' is, again, excluding some use
cases, i.e. defining an identity for Fedora.
We're providing a bunch of packages, that certain groups use to make a
variety of operating systems. If you want to develop a tool and expect
that it'll keep working on any given release without aggressive changes
underneath, pick the Fedora Desktop operating system. If you want to
run with the latest and greatest regardless of change risk, try the
Fedora KDE operating system.
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Jesse Keating
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