While backporting updates to supported packages during the LTS lifecycle is a big part of RHEL development, it is not the only thing RHEL Engineering does.

In this graph

https://tiny.distro.builders/view--view-eln.html

you can see the work on trimming dependencies of Fedora packages, which is happening now in Fedora ELN.

The goal is to reduce the number of SRPMs included in RHEL 10.

From 4700 packages in May we are now down to 2500.

And yes, all this development work is now open.

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New article!

This time we talk about RPM sources, dist-git and "exploded SRPMs" - yes, I like the term :)

https://quantum-integration.org/dist-git-and-exploded-srpms-demystified

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My new article, a bit more generic than the previous one

https://quantum-integration.org/continuously-built-linux-distributions

"I know people who imagine distribution development as the process of piling up the code in the git repository for 6 months and then building it all in one go at the end of those 6 months, so that it can finally be shipped. This is very far from reality. And it is impossible to explain things like CentOS Stream without addressing this confusion."

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Good news everyone, the federation for my blog is now working.

Thank you, Write.as admins, for fixing it, I hope it will last

Please meet:

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with the new post which is the introduction part of the part 1 of the first chapter of the overview of what I really wanted to write today, but didn't.

https://quantum-integration.org/el-development

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