On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 17:24 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
On Sun, 02 Sep 2007 10:59:28 -0500
"David G. Mackay" <mackay_d(a)bellsouth.net> wrote:
> > And for the record, I do use Fedora. Rawhide at home, latest release
> > at work. On every machine I own. That covers the gamut of primary
> > arches Fedora has (i686, x86_64, ppc, ppc64).
> >
> > josh
>
> And what do you do when you require functionality that's not in Fedora?
Depends. If it's outside the scope of Fedora, such as codecs, etc I
certainly don't expect Fedora to fill that need. If it's within the
realm of Fedora, and it's not present yet I package it up myself. If
it's already in Fedora and it's lacking something I need, I work with
upstream to get it in place so it will follow naturally to Fedora.
So you really rely on your ability to extend Fedora to make it do what
you want. I understand the problems with the codecs, and expect that,
were it legal to do so, they would be included. The problems stemming
from the need for a compat-python are a bit different. Given the fact
that python breaks compatibility with itself rather badly on a regualar
basis, I suspect that your problems working with upstream developers are
going to increase, and Fedora's own in-house projects may very well need
a compat-python.
Dave