Timothy Murphy wrote:
Rahul Sundaram wrote:
I don't know of any Fedora application that works
with Fedora kernel 2.6.x.y-n
that does not work equally well with vanilla kernel 2.6.x.y .
That is what I mean by orthogonal.
There have been some examples in the past seen in bugzilla. These are
treated as bugs and fixed.
If an application does not work with a current vanilla kernel,
then in my view there is a bug in the application,
not the kernel.
Yep. It is still a bug that needs to be fixed.
That does not contradict what I said in any way.
It is the organization of Fedora that I am talking about,
not individual applications.
I repeat: in my view Fedora is becoming too complex,
and would benefit greatly from simplification and organization.
You got to be a lot more specific than that.
A "spaghetti-like development" is not a bug.
Examples of what I mean would be most audio and video aspects
of Fedora-7.
Also things like conflicting config generators,
as eg system-config-printer contrasted with the web interface to CUPS.
http://www.redhat.com/magazine/022aug06/features/fc6_print/
Nb This is not a serious criticism of Fedora,
simply a response to those who were arguing that I was wrong
in preferring to keep distribution and kernel orthogonal.
That is your choice assuming you are aware of the plus and minuses of
doing that.
Rahul
