Proposal: Rolling Release

[Les Mikesell]

Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:17:05 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> 
>> Beg your pardon?  How many years has fedora policy forced a horribly 
>> fractured 3rd party repository situation
> 
> Which policy is that?

I'm not even sure how to describe it.  There's the part about not 
admitting that users need things like vendor provided drivers, Sun Java, 
  VMware, etc. and coordinating with the people that provide them. 
There's the part about never coming to terms that the several 3rd party 
repositories could agree on to coordinate into one or at least stay in 
sync with each other and the core.  There's the part about never 
including references to any of these 3rd party resources in the distro 
so users are forced to discover them on their own and hope they pick the 
right one, since they conflict with each other.  These are big problems 
for anyone trying to use fedora, and something that Ubuntu has taken 
care of so it is rarely a user problem.  There are some understandable 
legal issues involving patented components, but that's not all there is 
to it.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com