On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 00:39, John Summerfied wrote: > Whether the policy is the same as always is not the point. The point is > that it's silly. It forces users to make untimely choices (such as go to > a beta release) or to make needless choices and do needless work (such > as reconfigure their updating software or install a soon-to-retire > release) or to make unsafe choices (such as to use unmaintained software). The simple fix for this would be for either the final FC3 update to install a yum repository change so subsequent updates would continue to come in from the legacy repo or just let the legacy team take over maintenance of the existing repository location - or make the existing repo mirror the legacy one. Failing to do this is going to leave a huge number of machines vulnerable to future security problems even if they had been set up to do automatic updates. That's not a good thing for a distribution's reputation. Letting the Fedora team change focus as planned makes sense. Forcing all users to make a manual configuration change in something that was supposed to help them avoid manual work doesn't make sense. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
