Am 22.11.2011 01:59, schrieb Toshio Kuratomi:
The updates policy is meant to protect users of Fedora within
reason.
Compiling, writing, and using third party software on Fedora is a valid use
of Fedora whether or not that software exists within Fedora. This update
may be acceptable because the bugs fixed were deemed more worthwhile than
the changes that were introduced but that decision should not hinge upon the
availability of affected software within Fedora but upon the popularity of
such software among users of Fedora, the ease with which that software can
be made to work with Fedora once the change goes in, and how those questions
weigh against the issues that are resolved by the new version.
If those aren't the criteria that we want to use then the updats policy (and
possibly the updates vision) should be amended.
please complain on the rpmfusion list why th e hell they are not
maintain their packages as they stopped support open-vm-tools
for F15 and do not blame fedora that it will not happen again
like with F14 that a brand new operating system does not support
current hardware and yes a 6 month old release is brand new