Unstable EPEL? (frequent package updates)

[Paul Howarth]

Ray Van Dolson wrote:
> I'm somewhat torn though.  It's one thing to not update something that
> provides an API to other programs, but maybe less of an issue to update
> a client only program -- something like freehoo (CLI Yahoo messenger
> client) which is something I would hate to see stuck at a really old
> version just because it's against policy to update it.

I think there's a good case for a distinction between "top-level" 
packages (like freehoo) and those that other packages depend on as you 
say. And there's precedent for that in RHEL too, given that RHEL 5.2 has 
a firefox 3 beta for instance.

Paul.