On 31.07.2013 14:10, Klaus Kaempf wrote:
* Stephan Kulow
[Jul 30. 2013 20:38]: This is what I think too. You only move problems and while you may (I don't even believe in that part to be honest) ease the work of the release team, you make it 100x harder for users to pick a stable base to work with. Because the dependencies are still there, but to test version 17 of X together with version 22 of GNOME together with version 8 of evolution you need to update to version 11 of Networkmanager and that then only works with the latest CORE, which then unfortunately is no longer available for X - and at that time you switch to gentoo and compile it all yourself (of course I forgot like 29 components).
Maybe you forget one important thing: Interest of package maintainers to have their stuff building/working on openSUSE.
The KDE and GNOME maintainers are a good example, usually maintaining two or more versions in parallel. I as a user can choose which one to install. Those they maintain now won't go away and just as GNOME 3.8 is not available for 12.2 and 3.6 not for factory, I don't think there will be interest of maintaining something noone use. And this is exactly my main criticism on Robert's proposal: it will be impossible to *use*.
Give the package/component maintainers more responsibility and they will live up to it.
I'm afraid I've never been a religion person, so I only believe what I see or is proven otherwise. Greetings, Stephan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org