Where are we going? (Not a rant)

[Reindl Harald]

Am 08.12.2012 17:25, schrieb Bruno Wolff III:
> On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 08:12:24 -0800,
>   Arun SAG <sagarun at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Not really! We are already a customer of RHEL. Money is not the problem. We
>> want our users to use the latest software out there  but we also want to
>> reduce the upgrade cycle.
>>
>> You CANNOT disturb every developer in a company to upgrade his box every 6
>> months.
> 
> 
> Those are somewhat conflicting requirements. Maybe RHEL plus a local repo for packages you need more up to date
> than what is provided for in RHEL would work for you.

this does not work

a few years after RHEL release you will be unable for many "local builds"
because build requirements does not fit and it is hardly possible to
fullfil them and update a lot of depending libraries also with local
builds without collide/break with the rest of the distribution

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