Proposal: Rolling Release

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Tue Nov 11 16:03:18 UTC 2008


Bojan Smojver (bojan at rexursive.com) said: 
> I'm not so sure about the "easily" bit.
> 
> Let's say disconnected non-local authentication got addressed by various
> components. How are you going to test this without pulling in the whole new
> distro if something in say glibc got changed to accommodate it? Very hard to do
> and not worth the trouble of risking massive breakage this can cause.

To bring a more concrete angle to the discussion - the new plymouth
bootup support required not just the new plymouth package, but also
changes to:

- mkinitrd
- initscripts
- X server
- X drivers
- kernel
- gdm
- mesa (?)

... at which point you're dragging back an awful lot.

Bill




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