[CentOS] Emulate RHEV On CentOS - A note on Xen v. KVM

On Wed, 2011-09-07 at 15:03 +0100, John Hodrien wrote:

> On Wed, 7 Sep 2011, Always Learning wrote:
> >
> > Perhaps a silly question, but why maintain patches ? Why not compile a
> > new version and discard all the patches ? Patches are a messy manner to
> > maintain programmes.

> That's fine if you just want to jump ship to a new version.  But what if the
> new version breaks some things, or changes behaviour in a way you don't want,
> or removes a feature.

If one compiled a 'new' version containing all those many existing
patches, would not that 'new' version simply work exactly as the old
version patched by countless alternations ?

Regards,

Paul.