[CentOS-devel] Balancing the needs around the RHEL platform

On 12/29/20 6:50 PM, redbaronbrowser via CentOS-devel wrote:
> dnf will allows enabling COPR builds for updates.  Using either Docker or KVM might be the best way to deal with fragle applications or environment requirements.  Just take a snapshot before running updates and revert as needed.

The problem is that such upstream bugs appear and disappear, but subtle 
effects might not be detected for weeks or months. There's a lot of 
value in stabilizing on a specific release and only testing and fixing 
bugs until you are reasonably sure that everything works right together, 
like Red Hat and other LTS distro vendors do. An HFT algorithm losing 2% 
of transactions for several months would be a major issue, and worse 
things can happen in critical applications in medical, military or heavy 
industry - it's difficult enough to get software right without 
constantly changing dependencies. A Docker container pulling 
dependencies as "whatever was on GitHub last Tuesday" isn't good enough 
for such applications, although for web applications it might be fine 
(plenty of people do just that).