Re: [CentOS-devel] [REQUEST] Create the CentOS Hosting SIG

On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 5:42 PM, Manuel Wolfshant wolfy@nobugconsulting.ro wrote:

people look at the versions, they see that there is no straight forward support for Shiny.New.2015 and look somewhere else. Very very few analyze if a) they really need that new version b) if that version can be used in RHEL/CentOS. Leaving aside that there is also a logic in "I do not need the shiny version now but I might need tomorrow.

And there are often good bug/security fix reasons to think you need versions beyond the packages in RHEL/Centos. Those fixes might in fact have been backported but it is a lot harder to find out than just looking at the revision numbers.