On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 00:58 +0100, Alan Bartlett wrote:
> As you know, the recommended reading for those persons starts with the
> following Red Hat policy regarding the backporting of security fixes
> --
> 
> http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/backporting/
> 
Perhaps it's a tribute to the rise in the distro popularity that many
users expect EL to have the same features as the more popular desktop
user oriented Ubuntu or Fedora distros, say.
... Together with the fact that the modern Linux user expects it all to
work without any self help or understanding of what goes on behind the
scenes.