On Fri, 3 Jul 2009, Bogdan Nicolescu wrote:
BUT... when someone from the Centos team makes a statement like "...latest release has many up-to-date desktop packages..."
ummm -- it is of course true that changes happen; rebasings do as well; and the CentOS project [and the upstream] document these matters in release notes as to the up-to-date changes done. Upstream decided on most of them, or we made a minimal delta to get the packageset to stabilize. So what? The project cannot cater to people who won't read nor pay attention.
I think a lot of users will start looking for alternatives.
'a lot?' ... we disagree
That said: Choice is good -- keeping an eye on options is good. So what?
Straining at gnats and worrying about scope creep by CentOS in 'base' and 'updates' is a wasted effort, so long as one remains in those archives. As I said before, 'no-one forces you to use any third party repository'
-- Russ herrold