On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 07:56:41PM +0200, hw wrote:
Sure is: You get to manage your distribution yourself by picking the versions of packages you figure might work together, which you are supposed and required to do with Gentoo, especially when you run into yet another dependency conflict. Only --- I guess --- you don?t get the same level of control over the packages as you get with Gentoo because there aren?t any USE flags.
No, this isn't it it all. Modules are sets of packages which the distribution creators have selected to work together; you don't compose modules as an end-user.
Are you sure that all the added complexity and implicitly giving up a stable platform by providing a mess of package versions is worth it?
This is a false dichotomy. We will be providing a stable platform as the Base Runtime module.
How are the plans about dealing with bug reports, say, for squid 2.7, for those who need that version for a feature which hasn?t been included in current versions yet? Just wait a bit until the distribution goes EOL? Is RH going to fix them once someone has bought their support?
I can't speak to Red Hat plans or Red Hat fixes. In Fedora, we might have, say, squid 3.5, squid 4.0, and squid 5 streams (stable, beta, and devel) all maintained at the same time.