is fedora really bleeding edge?

[Aaron Konstam]

On Sun, 2012-03-04 at 13:34 -0700, Stuart McGraw wrote: 
> One of the reason for using Fedora is quick access
> to the latest software -- sometimes even too quick
> (hence the "bleeding edge" moniker.)
> 
> But I have noticed this is not true for some things.
> For example, in Fedora 15 python seems frozen at 
> python-2.7.1 even though -2.7.2 was released a long 
> time ago and fixes a number of bugs.
> 
> Another example is postgresql which remains in the 
> 9.0.x release although 9.1.x contains a number of
> significant new features.
> 
> Why do many packages follow the upstream faithfully
> yet others seem to use a boat-anchor update policy?  
> Is there an official policy about this or is it a 
> matter of individual packagers' choice?
> 

Run: yum install python3\*
and see what happens.
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