Maciej Pilichowski escribió:
Hello,
For me meaning of upgrade is simply --
yeah, it is very easy in words...
user should upgrade system and everything should work as before,
The holy grail eh ? that 's **a hell lot** of work.
Examples: opensuse dropped smbfs package some time ago, and this done silently, when you try to use smbfs...
because it was not needed anymore.. or do you expect we carry obsolete stuff forever ?
a) let's say user works with OS X.Y with package P installed older than the basic package from this OS version (example opensuse 10.2 and cups 1.1) -- do not touch such packages!
and you expect us to support that ? o_O how you ensure that will work at all?? got an idea ?
I think it is better to provide unmaintained code to help users, than to remove such software and make things worse for users (cifs does not work so well)
Providing unmantained code to users is a very risky, irresponsible thing and should be avoided by all means.
Backward compatibility really matters --
It matters as much as any other area, but frecuently conflicts with things as like ease of manteniance, security,correctness..etc.. -- "You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them." --Ray Bradbury Cristian Rodríguez R, Core Services SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Research & Development http://www.opensuse.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org