[Fwd: Wikipidia - Goodbye Red Hat and Fedora]

[Les Mikesell]

Till Maas wrote:
> On Sun October 12 2008, Les Mikesell wrote:
> 
>> But the first question should be why a separate community is necessary.
>>   Why is it not possible for one of fedora's goals to be to provide a
>> clean transition to RHEL or Centos at the end of certain development
>> cycles, at which point EPEL/Rpmfusion, etc. would be unnecessary as
>> separate entities since that fedora cycle's repository would be directly
>> usable as-is and would simply need to be maintained instead of the
>> various 3rd party versions that have been necessary to fill this void?
> 
> You only need people to test this and document what needs to be done, like the 
> yum upgrade SIG do. They document what is needed to run an upgrade without 
> using anaconda from one Fedora release to another.

Change 'document' to 'script' and I might agree with you.  No one really 
wants to know what one-off oddball quirks need to be handled between 
distros/versions, they just want it to be done correctly.

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   Les Mikesell
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