On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 2:33 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic centos@plnet.rs wrote:
If CentOS has any desire to expand on the market share, it should stop being "only-for-admins" distro.
No, the base distribution has to remain a toolbox with all the options. It should be the role of the SIGs to build respins already configured for common uses. But, consider the problem it introduces if you expect the respins to pull updates directly from the base. A distro like ClearOS is going to have configuration/management packages that operate on top of the stock packages. That means that every time one of the managed stock packages is updated there is a chance (rare, but it happens) that its config options will change in a way that will break things and it should be held back until the corresponding change is made in the wrapper packages. That's not a problem if every SIG mirrors all of the base updates so they can manage the timing, but that seems horribly inefficient.