Reminiscent of my own reason for switching away from Fedora Linux, the forced separation of packages into repositories for different “versions” of the distribution is causing all sorts of havoc (or rather, preventing us from fixing this havoc) on our server at the lab.

Because I can’t use the official Redhat repositories to get the newest versions of packages, I’m forced to browse sites like rpmforge looking for them (or compile them myself from source). And forget about it if the package has dependencies!

A model like Gentoo’s is really much better, in the sense that there are no versions, just a continuous upgrade cycle which is always capable of supporting the newest packages.