Pull off AIGLX repoistory?

[Rahul]

Chris Chabot wrote:
>> On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Rahul wrote:
>> The only way to reduce any breakages such as this is not release major 
>> updates at all.
> 
> Isn't that what 'releases' are for, major updates & upgrades? 

To a extend, yes but its not all black and white. Anyone using Fedora 
would be aware of that already.

It will be
> kind of hard for anyone making software to say "Works well on fedora core 5,
> if you exclude these packages, or haven't/have updated before/after
> xx-xx-xxxx"
> 
> To me a 'supported' (bad word to use I know :-)) release would mean that its
> API/ABI stable, but security fixes are made available, and if something
> works with 'FC-5', then it should work with FC-5 :-)

ABI/API stability is only possible by backporting fixes and that 
requires more work than possible in Fedora. Which community distribution 
guarantees ABI stability?

> 
> To me, as a user it would be a frustrating experience to suddenly find that
> after an 'update' suddenly things don't work as expected anymore .. Even
> though some people might have something of an resentment against binary
> applications or drivers, I don't see why we have to be 'against' them either
> and go out of our way to break them 'because we can', fedora is a platform
> for many things..

That implies that Kernel or Xorg developers are deliberately changing 
things to break binary drivers which is a unproven accusation.

Rahul