On Tuesday, November 01, 2011 12:19:31 PM Les Mikesell wrote: > What stability problems would you expect from updates beyond a point > release? The whole point of an 'enterprise' distribution is the > effort they make to not break api's across a whole major-rev's life. > Would an upstream system break if you selectively update packages > beyond a point release without doing a full update? If the absolute ABI didn't occasionally break from upstream, Scientific Linux would likely not do point releases the way that they do them.