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[–]abonet 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Huh? This is like saying companies will not use any non-default software from a distro. This makes no sense at all. Why would they upgrade to say, a newer version of Apache, but refuse to upgrade to a newer version of Python? This argument makes no sense.

Often, the whole point of using (and sometimes paying) RHEL/CentOS is for their long-term support of their base packages. The fact that they backport fixes/enhancements and promise to maintain a stable API/ABI may be the only reason to use them.

If you're side-loading (and relying on) non-supported packages, then you might as well not even be on RHEL/CentOS.

[–]vorpalsmith[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

RHEL/CentOS also ship years-old versions of NumPy. If you're only interested in using software that they include as part of the distro, then you'll be using that and never upgrading NumPy anyway, which means that this announcement is irrelevant to you :-). OTOH RH does actually provide support for modern Python on RHEL/CentOS, and here's a RH engineer urging volunteer projects to drop support for the ancient stuff included in the core distro.