Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (341 mails)

[Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett <dmacvicar@xxxxxxx>]

Felix Miata wrote:
> I know that's normal, but still the feature request was technically filed 
> against 11.0. And, one
> never knows what "feature" will get slipped in as or in a "bugfix" for a 
> released product. AFAICT,
> this is not all that uncommon when a "bugfix" is a product of upstream.
>   
We do often fixes in current version, and mark the bug as fixed in older
versions.

> Since it apparently hasn't been and won't be added to 11.0, I'll just have to 
> remember to keep
> using Smart instead of Zypper on 11.0 systems, something I failed to remember 
> today. It's annoying
> to not be able to stick to one package manager. :-(
>   
I understand your frustration. I can't get convinced though that a
backport is worth the priority.

- Either the system is non critical and you don't change kernels (I mean
kernel versions) like end-users do
- We can reasonable assume a SUSE kernel update will work.
- If you run a critical system, you would not change the kernel on a the
production system.

Duncan
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