Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (67 mails)

["Dominique Leuenberger" <Dominique.Leuenberger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > > On 12/13/2007 at 3:35 PM, Krzysztof Kotlenga <piernik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > All updates have to come from either a BS repository or from the
> > openSUSE-update channel (but even there: there is hardly ever a
> > version upgrade; only security fixes).
>
> Thanks for the explanation. You confirmed what I've already noticed -
> update repository is "stable to death", so user have to track many BS
> repos to get fairly up to date system. Maybe I'm spoiled by other
> distros where update repositories use to get real updates (which often
> happens to be really important). But OK, I can live with that... :-)

That's at least a decision the user can go for himself; a newer version does 
not always mean less problems. But if you want to be on the bleeding edge, 
Factory is the right one ;) but there you should be aware: you get all the nice 
and new naughty things: be prepared to not have the system usable once in a 
while. 

Dominique

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