On Monday 06 June 2005 19:45, Collins Richey wrote:
> 2. Enterprise users (as a general rule) are not interested in the
> latest and greatest but rather in a stable, reasonably current system
> that can remain in place (with guaranteed security fixes, of course)
> with no "feature creep" for a few years. Even Gentoo stable is too
> much of a moving target for such users. The user base (engineers
> developing embedded Linux) I support is still well served by RH9 for
> the most part!

"Feature creep" is largely a problem upstream, not with package 
maintainers.  And no, we're not gonna backport anything.  If people really 
believe that backporting fixes = stable and/or secure, let them use RH.  
It's a belief, nothing more.

Cheers,
Dylan Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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