What Fedora makes sucking for me - or why I am NOT Fedora

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Fri Dec 12 03:30:17 UTC 2008


Les Mikesell wrote:
> Maybe.  What if the new version had dependencies that pulled in
> non-backwards compatible components?

That's exactly why we need new versions built for stable updates rather than
just using the Rawhide versions. The whole point of building for the
current/previous release (rather than the next one, i.e. Rawhide) is to (in
the vast majority of cases) NOT need new incompatible dependencies.

        Kevin Kofler




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