Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (142 mails)

[Adrian Schröter <adrian@xxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 16 April 2008 16:15:06 wrote jdd:
> James Tremblay a écrit :
> > This whole thread brings back a point I've been trying to make for over
> > a year now.
>
> If I understand well, one distro with 3 years and two with only one year?
>
> may be.
>
> There is an other road we could (may be) use.
>
> That is work more on *upgrading cleanly* a distro.

Sure, this is always wanted. But you need to take into account that this is 
something we have only partly in our hands.

Enough open source projects do not care about this, so we need either to write 
update scripts (to adapt a configuration for example) or ask the users to fix 
it manually.

> That is when 11 is out, makes it possible to upgrade from 10.3 without
> fear. Possibly asking for change from kde3 to kde4 (or have them
> together for some time).
>
> and 11 to 11.1, 11.1 to 11.2 (but not 11 to 11.2)
>
> like this we could have end of life date for *products*, not for distro.
>
> I don't know how mozilla do the daily update they do automatically,
> but I beg doing so is a way to make distro work easier, no need to
> wonder about mozilla now...
>
> I have a hosted server with 10.2, and little way to use anything else
> (openSUSE). I would be much easier for me to use only one distro, but
> I fear the online update...

k, but that will not help us to improve it ;)

> after all, changes like kde3->kde4 or kernel 2.4->2.4 are not that
> frequent
>
> jdd



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Adrian Schroeter
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