Stability and Release Cycles - An Idea

[Les Mikesell]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-12-23 at 01:23 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> RHEL also makes a number of configuration changes and there are 
>> dependency differences between them as a result.  How do you account for 
>> all that differences in updates? Fedora includes about 5 times more 
>> software packages than RHEL. What about security updates for all those 
>> software that is in Fedora but not in RHEL ?  That gap continues to 
>> increase as well since the Fedora repository continues to grow at a 
>> rapid rate while RHEL repository size don't grow that much.
> 
> One such huge difference is the existence of mono or not.  Fedora has
> mono, RHEL does not.

Is that likely to continue to be the case for the next RHEL?

> Lots of things do link against mono in Fedora, or
> build mono subpackages, but don't in RHEL.  That's a whole can of worms
> to get into when trying to do an update for something.

I'd expect silverlight/moonlight to become something fairly essential 
within the life of the next enterprise release, especially if netflix 
streaming works on it.

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