On Tue, 26 Sep 2023 23:05:14 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
No, because you will misunderstand my words. I'll let other people explain.
Huh. So I want to understand, but you either think I'm (a) not smart enough to understand what you're trying to say, or (b) that I'm insincere in wanting to understand. I find that patently offensive.
Roger Oberholtzer understands. Maybe Simon Becherer, Fritz Hudnut... just looking at participants in this thread.
I want API and ABI stability. Stability as in few updates done (not users skipping updates), keeping the same versions for a year with just security updates, similar to what leap does now, or rather what openSUSE did before Leap. I want compatibility with commercial packages out of the box.
This is not the same concept of stability as in "not breaking".
Which is not *actually* what you said. But if you want ABI and API stability, not updating is still an option for you. If you want security patches, you have the option of backporting them yourself or spearheading an effort to do just that. Or you can selectively apply updates and patches based on your needs - or some combination of those options. Face it, the team that's putting together Leap has decided they're not interested in doing that any more. So if someone wants Leap to continue past 15.6, they need to step up to make it happen. Making statements like "I object to [updates'] mere existence" isn't going to effect the change you want. Open source and technology is always changing, and either you adapt or you don't. Complaining that people who volunteer their time aren't doing what YOU need without stepping up to help isn't going to get you what you want.
But If you are partisan to TW, you will not understand, and try to put everybody in TW, and think that skipping updates is the solution for us.
Huh, because I run Tumbleweed on one system, I must be "partisan" to it. Nice. Never mind that I have my wife's laptop on Leap and have VMs for all the current versions of Leap so I can test things on them. But *clearly* I'm too stupid to understand you. Got it. Jim -- Jim Henderson Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits