2011/11/17 Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.com>:
On 2011-11-17T14:03:41, Eduard Huguet <eduardhc@gmail.com> wrote:
Why should be an "old TL" for 11.4 and a "new" one for 12.1? This is just contrary to what a rolling distro is: it should be only one TL repo, completely detached from main OpenSUSE version.
For a true rolling distribution, you'd be right.
However, Greg appears to want to use Tumbleweed as a "selective factory backports to the last official release", which I have no problem with. (Even if it's not a rolling distribution stream.) But even for that use case, my criticism of the release management would stand.
Regards, Lars
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Well, this part is probably not clear enough in the documentation, as it clearly talks about a "rolling release" version of openSUSE: if this should be the case, then my opinion is that it should be completely detached from main version. The main point of rolling release distros is that they remove the concept of "release version" thoigh continuous updates, so user never (well, almost...) has to do any funky dance to keep the system up to the last version. With what we have now, TL users (like myself) will probably end up by performing a full reinstall using 12.1, then adding again TL repos. And, in 8 months from now, we'll have to probably have to do it again, even if then we won't need to update the repositories because of the new "current" symlink. This is just the opposite thing to what we'd expect from a "rolling distro"... Anyway, I fully understand, however, that a true rolling release scheme would require a very bigger number of resources to keep it maintained, I guess. Kind regards, Eduard Huguet -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org