[ATrpms-devel] Increased update lead time, repo too large

[David Rees]

On 5/15/05, Jarod Wilson <jarod at wilsonet.com> wrote:
> 
> > I'd like feedback on whether some distributions should finally face
> > nirvana. Not only for mythtv, but atrpms in general. I tend to want to
> > kill everything that RH has killed (EOLed). That would be RHL7.3 to 9
> > and FC1 and 2.
> 
> I vote to kill them all, and from here on out, keep the policy of only
> supporting what Red Hat supports. ATrpms users wanting to stay on a 2.4
> kernel have the option of EL3 now, EL4 if they want a long-term supported 2.6
> option, and FC4 out the door shortly for the bleeding edge.

I'm not sure killing them all is the right thing to do, but definitely
only supporting the releases that Fedora Legacy (www.fedoralegacy.org)
supports would be a good thing to do, while also dropping releases
which are too troublesome and/or old to support (for example, RH7.3
and possibly RH9).

-Dave