reviving Fedora Legacy

[Les Mikesell]

Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
> 
>>> Long term stability is achieved by *NOT ADDING NEW FEATURES*.  *ADDING
>>> NEW FEATURES INTRODUCES NEW BUGS*
>> But that's generally an upstream issue. The bugs get fixed upstream but in
>> general the new releases aren't included in RHEL/Centos updates even after
>> the updated program becomes less buggy that the shipped version. (Firefox
>> and OO being recent, rare exceptions).
> 
> Unfortunately, upstream developers don't always release bugfix-only
> releases.  Many times they introduce new features or change the
> behavior of old features.

Agreed - sometimes they do things as bizarre as dropping a feature, then 
putting it back with a different name, like "yum --download-only" vs. 
much later an optional module invoked as "yum --downloadonly".

> Introducing new features means that there
> are probably new bugs which is bad for distributions like RHEL/CentOS.

But again, that's a package by package issue as to whether upstream is 
improved or not.  And mostly RHEL/Centos treats the whole distro the same.

>  Changing the behavior of old features is just as bad for RHEL/CentOS
> because people are building systems that expect the old behavior.

Yes, ideally there would be an optional, alternate repo for 
behavior-changing updates.

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   Les Mikesell
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