Stable Release Updates types proposal (was Re: Fedora Board Meeting Recap 2010-03-11)

[Seth Vidal]

On Fri, 12 Mar 2010, Matthew Garrett wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 12:23:58PM +0000, Andy Green wrote:
>
>> However I agree this isn't a real issue, the packages with the homegrown
>> apps should choke the yum update because they see the lib versions they
>> depend on would go away, so nothing breaks.
>
> Only if they're using the packaging system. While in an ideal world
> everything would be packaged in Fedora,

In an ideal world I think everything would be available in an rpm package. 
However, I do not agree that everything should be packaged in fedora. I 
only say this b/c of the problem of maintenance and scale.

-sv