Re: [hylafax-users] OT: RedHat Was: from RPM to CVS

[Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2003.12.02 14:12 Aidan Van Dyk wrote:
> * Stephen Arnold <arnold.steve@xxxxxxxxx> [031202 16:31]:
> > On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 13:02, Lee Howard wrote:

> > There's some link to the rawhide stuff, but fedora is supposed to be
> a
> > "real" distro (not a hobby thing).
>
> But they aren't aiming for stable, solid, no-chance-of-bad, etc.
> They've said that fedora will always only keep "latest" packages, etc.
> No bug fixes, etc, carried for "old" packages.

That was exactly my impression.  RawHide is/was RedHat's testing 
grounds for the "latest" packages.  Production systems tend to want 
mostly "mature" packages (versions) but always patched up with whatever 
security fixes (and perhaps some bug fixes) come out.  For the most 
part when I administer a production server that is working happily I 
don't want to update packages for feature enhancements that I won't 
use.  But I do want security fixes and some bug fixes.  If Fedora 
always releases the "latest" packages then it's always on the 
"bleeding-edge" that RawHide rides.

I guess it all depends upon what the Fedora maintainers actually end up 
doing and what Fedora evolves into, but I honestly don't see the point 
in waiting and hoping for Fedora to do what Debian does when Debian 
does it already.

I would LOVE to see Fedora do what Debian does but with the RedHat 
look-and-feel (startup scripts, etc.).  But, is that going to happen?  
If it doesn't happen by April then I don't see me considering Fedora 
much.

Lee.

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