Re: Fedora 7: The Linux Knight in Shining Armor?

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 11:09 -0700, Robin Laing wrote:
> Tom Horsley wrote:
> <SNIP>
> > In fact, while we're at it - never have another "release", just keep
> > upgrading rpms forever with individual packages being released,
> > but nothing called a whole distribution having a release. Individual
> > rpms just get marked obsolete and replaced with new ones in the
> > ever updated lists.
> > 
> > Now *that* would be a Knight in shining armor! Fedora 7 is a mere
> > feeble imitation in comparison :-).
> > 
> > [Just don't ask me to do any of the work :-].
> > 
> 
> Now, this is a great idea.  No more worrying about upgrades or do I have 
> enough time before the next release to make all the changes.  What about 
> he secondary repositories for things that will never be in Fedora proper 
> that you have to wait to be released.
> 
> I would like to see Fedora 7 or Fedora 8 become just Fedora and then no 
> more 6 month release dates.  Just updates to what would be the next release.
> 
> -- 
> Robin Laing
> 
I second or third this suggestion. It is tiring every 6 months to have
to start from scratch so to speak.
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