Fedora products, to upgrade rather than backport?

[David Rees]

On 5/15/06, Pekka Savola <pekkas at netcore.fi> wrote:
> My opinion here is: do whichever is the easiest.  In some cases, doing
> a backport may be easier than upgrade [*].  One should also look at
> the approach chosen by other Fedora Core/RHEL releases. Other things
> being equal, prefer backporting.

This seems like a sane policy to me!

-Dave