[WBEL-devel] ncurses4

[John Hinton]

donavan nelson wrote:

>If someone steps up to do the work.  I plan to maintain a few packages (of
>personal interest), until they get into the main RHEL.  I can certainly find a
>place on whiteboxlinux.net to accommodate storage and information for these
>packages.  Someone just has to do the leg work or find, building and
>maintaining the packages of interest to them.  I suspect that there are going
>to be several people with situations like yours.
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Hmmm.. a good diversion. WBEL stable and unstable! What a novel idea. :)

I must throw in my vote that I will only use WBEL if it holds as close 
as possible to RHEL. I'll be running this on mission critical machines 
and even RedHat had a bad blunder or three. There is simply no way a 
package can be tested fully and I'm sure RH is going to have a better 
chance of testing in more combinations than we ever will. Now, I would 
suggest that 'when' we do find the buggy update from RH, we do what we 
can as a community to come up with and test a repair. Sometimes RH was 
terribly slow about fixing what they broke. I'm not meaning this in a 
bad way, RH has done a fabulous job. It can be tough when faced with 
'big security hole here' vs. 'no security hole but your clients have to 
deal with broken such and such until the fix to the fix comes out'.

John Hinton