2009/8/9 Ron Blizzard <rb4centos at gmail.com> > On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Ian Murray<murrayie at yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > I did understand it the first time, but thanks again for the further > > clarification. This kinda illustrates my point. Couldn't you have a > > different repo with these updates maintained by other community members, > > under the guidance of the 'core'. Ppl could decide whether to trade-off > > security vs compatibility/reliability. I suppose your counter argument > there > > is that there is nothing stopping that happening outside of CentOS > project. > > > > Anyway, I am sure you have better things to do than argue the toss with > me > > on a Sunday! ;o) > > But isn't this the point of RPMForge and the other repositories -- to > allow us to customize our CentOS boxes to our heart's content. As for > starting a new (Fedora-like?) project under the guidance of 'core,' I > don't think you realize how much time and effort something like that > would take. If you've ever trained anyone (I used to have to do that) > you know how much easier it is to it yourself then walk someone else > through it. Do you really want the CentOS developers sifting through > someone else's work, for another side project, in addition to > developing CentOS? How many hours a day do you think they have? > > What I love about CentOS Linux is that it compatible with Red Hat. > That's all I want it to be (which, in my opinion, is quite a lot). If > I decide I want to use Firefox 3.5.x instead of 3.0.12 (or example), > I'll either find an add-on repository or I'll download it from > Mozilla. You can't be all things to all people without losing your > focus. as the old saying goes "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. Bill Cosby<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/b/billcosby105051.html> " > > > -- > RonB -- Using CentOS 5.3 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Linux counter #213090 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090809/0ea863d1/attachment-0005.html>