On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 18:22 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: > But just to recompile a new version of an application like sendmail, > or a new firefox version, or similar is practical. That is assuming > the infrastructure is in place, as it was for Fedora Legacy. This is about where I expected someone to say, "if Fedora used external packages as they were, rather than customising them for Fedora, users could simply recompile the latest source, themselves, and it'd work." -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.23.1-10.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.