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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