On 11/04/11 20:16, Digimer wrote:
/putting on asbestos pants.
each release is more complex than the last. The web of dependency grows, so the reverse-engineering takes longer and longer.
This is just complete nonsense. You clearly have no understanding of the processes involved in rebuilding RHEL. CentOS doesn't reverse-engineer anything, they simply rebuild the upstream sources. It's not rocket science.
Perhaps the tact to take is to apply pressure to the upstream provider to release the build details? I am sure that many folks who start with CentOS, grow to be large and move to RH proper. So there is, I would venture, an argument to be made that RH providing this info to CentOS and helping CentOS thrive would be beneficial for their business.