[CentOS] Dag's comment at linuxtag
R P Herrold
herrold at centos.org
Sat Jul 4 00:51:35 UTC 2009
On Fri, 3 Jul 2009, Bogdan Nicolescu wrote:
> BUT... when someone from the Centos team makes a statement
> like "...latest release has many up-to-date desktop
> packages..."
ummm -- it is of course true that changes happen; rebasings do
as well; and the CentOS project [and the upstream] document
these matters in release notes as to the up-to-date changes
done. Upstream decided on most of them, or we made a minimal
delta to get the packageset to stabilize. So what? The
project cannot cater to people who won't read nor pay
attention.
> I think a lot of users will start looking for alternatives.
'a lot?' ... we disagree
That said: Choice is good -- keeping an eye on options is
good. So what?
Straining at gnats and worrying about scope creep by CentOS in
'base' and 'updates' is a wasted effort, so long as one
remains in those archives. As I said before, 'no-one forces
you to use any third party repository'
-- Russ herrold
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