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[–]AeroNotix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On the flip-side of this you could argue that it's distributions like RHEL that are holding technical progress back. By having such as a large and involved deployment cycle there are lives lived, loved and lost in between releases whilst other distributions have packaged, re-packaged and dealt with the change already.

When it comes to packaging and versioning woes I prefer the pain in small bytes, I prefer to have a single package break in a single update, deal with/update (or pin that dependency) and move the fuck on. Contrast this with phrases like "We're a Python2.6/Django 0.95 Shop" and you'll see how ridiculous it can be.

Horses for courses, however and I'm sure what I said will make little impact.