-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 houghi wrote:
On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 11:53:22PM +0200, Pascal Bleser wrote:
(and I do speak about _unsupported_ upgrades).
I think there is an issue there. Many people want to run the latest whatever for whatever reason. With SUSE they have the choice between security patches or running the latest version.
Correct.
I understand the technical reason. However I believe there is a real demand from users, that I see, about running the latest version of e.g. KDE.
Yes. It's probably the most recurrent question on IRC (#suse and #opensuse): "how to install KDE 3.5.2", or "how to install GNOME 2.14" (well, now that 10.1 is released, unfortunately the most recurring question is "why is yast2 frozen or crashing when I install packages" - no offense intended, but that's how it is)
Unfortunatly they then loose security updates when they do this.
Indeed.
Is there not a way around this? e.g. having more then one YOU and having unsupported upgrades as well?
I think that would put a big burden on packagers.
- From my experience with the supplementary KDE repository, when critical
bugfixes and/or security fixes are necessary, their are being
incorporated into those packages. Usually 2 or 3 days after the Online
Update, which is understandable, but they are.
So the situation is not as critical as it might appear.
cheers
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-o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/
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