Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

[Matthew Garrett]

On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 04:48:52PM +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:

> No I assume everyone expected the Anaconda developers to handle that
> if not they would have asked for assistance in that regard and
> outlined the steps necessary to do so which I assume would have been
> minimal if necessary et all since I expect the installer to be able
> to work on packages in F16 or F17 or F18 for that matter hence the
> installer would be unchanged while the package set he is installing
> would only change.

The Anaconda developers have clearly been working on the assumption that 
F18 would ship the F18 Anaconda. Why would they have also been working 
on supporting the F17 Anaconda on F18?

> Is my assumption wrong in that regard as in the installer in F17
> could not have been used and if so why?

Your assumption is incorrect. Anaconda is very tightly tied to various 
system components.

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