Re: Leaving? (cont'd)

[Kevin Kofler <kevin kofler chello at>]

Rex Dieter <rdieter <at> math.unl.edu> writes:
> Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> > Back in FC4 I think it was, a newer vesion of KDE came out
> > approximately halfway though the Fedora life which fixed at least
> > three problems that I (and others I am sure) had which had rendered
> > serveral applications useless. So for half of a Fedora an update was
> > _not_ made as I was told it was a general policy not to do major
> > updates within a realse cycle.
[similar example with MySQL snipped]
> This kind of thing is not a general Fedora policy but is rather
> (generally) left to the discretion of the package's maintainer in question.

And FC4 actually _did_ get a major KDE upgrade (3.4.x->3.5.x).

        Kevin Kofler