kernels in the packaging universe
Tom 'spot' Callaway
tcallawa at redhat.com
Wed Dec 20 17:51:35 UTC 2006
On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 12:47 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 December 2006 11:40, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > If it is experimental,
> > let's call it just that.
>
> Some of these things are not 'experimental' as in "If it works, it may be
> included". Some of these things will never be included, so to call them
> experimental is not right.
>
> How about dontuse. Pretty clear right?
Personally, I'm voting for "don't bother".
This is a bad idea. We're encouraging fragmentation, and discouraging
the proper upstream path. If specific open source groups want to do
pre-upstream testing of kernel packages, let them make their own
unofficial repos. We'll link to them in our wiki.
~spot
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