Jim Cornette <fct-cornette <at> insight.rr.com> writes:
It doesn't make sense to me to hold off on application improvements and only want newer based kernels. I see that these type of individuals exist so I'll live with the different philosophical differences in approach to kernel and applications.
That's why application updates are also pushed to stable Fedora releases where it makes sense. :-)
For example, we're always pushing bugfix releases of KDE (x.y.z -> x.y.z+1), and we (well, Than Ngo, and Rex Dieter independently in his kde-redhat repository, as this was before the Core-Extras merge) already pushed a x.y.z->x.y+1.0 update once (3.4.x->3.5.0 in FC4) and we plan to do that again in Fedora 9 (4.0.x->4.1.0). What we _don't_ push is x.y.z->x+1.0.0 updates (thinking in terms of the kernel, that would be like updating a distro which shipped with 2.4 to 2.6), if you want KDE 4 for Fedora 8, you can get it from the kde-redhat unstable repository. (Note that the packages in kde-redhat unstable are rebuilds of the packages we're working on in Rawhide, there aren't separate "official Fedora" and "kde-redhat" flavors of KDE anymore. We're also using kde-redhat-devel as our SIG mailing list these days.)
Kevin Kofler