On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 05:46:15PM +0200, Felix Schwarz wrote:
Andy Gospodarek schrieb:
>Well put, Paul. Packages that mostly run standalone are appropriate
>candidates for a rebase (like freehoo and firefox), but those that serve
>as libraries or building blocks for other components should try to stay
>as stable as possible from an ABI/API perspective.
I would like to add the distinction between "server" and "desktop"
software.
While both categories are not always disjoint, it this the distinction is
useful
nevertheless: Some things like Firefox, OpenOffice etc. can be updated more
often than something like Exim, Apache, ...
That is an excellent point. Should we consider breaking EPEL into an
EPEL-Base and EPEL-Desktop? If we had separate repos it might be
helpful.
I would be in favor of that and then possibly change the way we queue
something to move from testing to stable so that it can remain in
testing longer.