On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 03:52:02PM -0700, John Wendel wrote:
Reading the Debian thread (and others) has made me wonder why Fedora
has to have "releases" at all. Why not have a continuously evolving
distribution? One would start by downloading an "installer system"
that would then use the existing mechanisms (yum, whatever) to update
itself. From this point on, why would one need "releases"? Just keep
releasing updates and new packages exactly as things are done now.
Think of the releases as stabilisation points.
Right now, after a release, there are two forks.
The released version will have stable updates pushed to it.
The other fork (rawhide/development), will have all kinds of crazy
destabilising experiments pushed to it.
With a single stream as you propose, we either throw away
the notion of a stable release, or we don't ever destabilise the tree.
Dave
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