On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 09:59:51PM +0000, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote: > On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:13:42 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > > No, I'm not advocating PgSQL 9 for F14, however, it shouldn't be so > > far-fetched that Fedora could have any software at any time. > > A Fedora update policy is being hashed out, and even before that, the > consensus is really against introducing major updates in stable releases. > It's not really "anything goes" as your statement seems to imply. > > > Expecting > > people to adopt their own personal repositories for versions of software > > that Fedora maintainers don't want to ship "just because" should be seen > > as a bug against Fedora itself. /end-thread-tangent > > Well, we're not, thankfully, in the same situation as some other distro > where each third-party repository overlap quite a lot because they > rebuild, possibly unnecessarily, an entire stack of software. The > personal repositories I've seen tend to be tightly focused -- Richard > Jones' mingw porting work, spot's repo for bleeding edge packages that > rightly are not ready for Fedora proper, etc. > But we're going in that direction... For instance, spot's firefox4 repo has to ship with its own rebuild of nss which, because of other efforts within Fedora, a lot of packages rely on.
As the concept of using third party repositories (both as packagers and as users) grows, this interdependence will grow. -Toshio
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