Am 25.04.2014 19:30, schrieb Miloslav Trmač:
2014-04-25 12:40 GMT+02:00 "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson":
Which is what we care about we cannot hold back progress in the distribution based on
someone, someplace,
somewhere might be using legacy cruff.
It's better for everybody they themselves included that they maintain those
packages or components within
Fedora itself or those individuals or company's will need to adapt they
themselves to our changes when we make
them.
That's certainly an option but it's not the only one; see the recent
"Functional" threads for example.
For LSB, there is an /explicit promise/ that if a vendor does what is specified, the
package will be possible to
install and will run correctly. We do, of course, have the option to repudiate LSB and
explicitly say we don't
care for future releases.
And it's not only commercial software; private projects that make no sense to publish
(such as a company's web
site) are equally affected such changes. Simply spoken, if we care only about package in
Fedora, we are building an
appliance; if we want to build an operating system, we do need to cater for software not
included directly in the repo
*thank you* for that words!