On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 03:52:02PM -0700, John Wendel wrote: > Reading the Debian thread (and others) has made me wonder why Fedora > has to have "releases" at all. Why not have a continuously evolving > distribution? One would start by downloading an "installer system" > that would then use the existing mechanisms (yum, whatever) to update > itself. From this point on, why would one need "releases"? Just keep > releasing updates and new packages exactly as things are done now. Think of the releases as stabilisation points. Right now, after a release, there are two forks. The released version will have stable updates pushed to it. The other fork (rawhide/development), will have all kinds of crazy destabilising experiments pushed to it. With a single stream as you propose, we either throw away the notion of a stable release, or we don't ever destabilise the tree. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
