Jim Cornette <fct-cornette <at> insight.rr.com> writes:
It doesn't make sense to me to hold off on application
improvements and
only want newer based kernels. I see that these type of individuals
exist so I'll live with the different philosophical differences in
approach to kernel and applications.
That's why application updates are also pushed to stable Fedora releases where
it makes sense. :-)
For example, we're always pushing bugfix releases of KDE (x.y.z -> x.y.z+1),
and we (well, Than Ngo, and Rex Dieter independently in his kde-redhat
repository, as this was before the Core-Extras merge) already pushed a
x.y.z->x.y+1.0 update once (3.4.x->3.5.0 in FC4) and we plan to do that again
in Fedora 9 (4.0.x->4.1.0). What we _don't_ push is x.y.z->x+1.0.0 updates
(thinking in terms of the kernel, that would be like updating a distro which
shipped with 2.4 to 2.6), if you want KDE 4 for Fedora 8, you can get it from
the kde-redhat unstable repository. (Note that the packages in kde-redhat
unstable are rebuilds of the packages we're working on in Rawhide, there aren't
separate "official Fedora" and "kde-redhat" flavors of KDE anymore.
We're also
using kde-redhat-devel as our SIG mailing list these days.)
Kevin Kofler