On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 07:56:41PM +0200, hw wrote: > Sure is: You get to manage your distribution yourself by picking the > versions of packages you figure might work together, which you are > supposed and required to do with Gentoo, especially when you run into > yet another dependency conflict. Only --- I guess --- you don?t get > the same level of control over the packages as you get with Gentoo > because there aren?t any USE flags. No, this isn't it it all. Modules are sets of packages which the distribution creators have selected to work together; you don't compose modules as an end-user. > Are you sure that all the added complexity and implicitly giving up a > stable platform by providing a mess of package versions is worth it? This is a false dichotomy. We will be providing a stable platform as the Base Runtime module. > How are the plans about dealing with bug reports, say, for squid 2.7, > for those who need that version for a feature which hasn?t been > included in current versions yet? Just wait a bit until the > distribution goes EOL? Is RH going to fix them once someone has > bought their support? I can't speak to Red Hat plans or Red Hat fixes. In Fedora, we might have, say, squid 3.5, squid 4.0, and squid 5 streams (stable, beta, and devel) all maintained at the same time. -- Matthew Miller <mattdm at fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader