On Sunday 11 November 2007 10:55:29 am Maciej Pilichowski wrote:
ad.a,b,c...) of course with update of X maybe you have to update Y, but it would be a still update of portion of the system, just bigger or smaller, not the entire lengthy process of upgrade which looks like an install
I'm not packager, but I have some idea what is the problem. When Cristian referred to gcc with 800 dependant packages that should be recompiled which translates in word 'updated' from user side, that was example what size can be one incremental update. I guess that it would be even worse with glibc. In case that you have design flaw that impares computer, there is no backward compatibility that will justify not to drop it and create better solution. The result is need for massive changes and update for all packages that use it. This is the case where idea of endless incremental update will become one large update, and that is exactly what we have now. If you like incremental update than use software repositories of openSUSE Build Service. For instance, I have often new version of KDE before official release. What is that if not incremental update? It is just not officially supported by Novell/SUSE, they don't patch such versions. -- Regards, Rajko. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org