Dear Johan,
One area where you should consider this is for browsers and especially for Mozilla Firefox as it's one of the most used in the linux/suse world :)
unfortunately it's much more complex than that. Mozilla Firefox might look like an example where updating is feasible because no other package depends on it, but it isn't. See: People can install extensions into their Mozilla Firefox profiles, and if a new version is delivered via YOU, most of them won't work correctly any more. Some of them can even invalidate the profile, produce XUL errors, destroy the user interface or even prevent the browser from starting up at all. Do you really want to see such things happen in a released product?
YES, at least my bank checked against you current versionnumber of Mozilla Firefox and I was told to upgrade (kind of fun as I just pulled it down via YOU seconds before on another PC) ;-)
I seriously doubt that the new version is really *required* for the online banking to work correctly. The bank shouldn't check the user agent string.
Yes at a very slow pace I may add if we don't consider the supplemental area of the ftp site ;-)
These packages are half-official and if people really need new versions, they can just add that to their installation sources. Since this directory provides repodata, it works with YaST and is quite easy to set up for everyone. Andreas Hanke -- GMX Produkte empfehlen und ganz einfach Geld verdienen! Satte Provisionen f�r GMX Partner: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/partner