On 2012-09-11T11:48:39, Patrick Shanahan <paka@opensuse.org> wrote:
Providing a stable rolling release would be impressive. Is Tumbleweed not considered stable yet? I thought it was. I too. I have been using Tumbleweed since it's inception with *few* difficulties, mostly of my own making.... :^)
I really like Tumbleweed. But it is not a rolling release; it's more of a selective backport. (Which I appreciate, honestly! It's just not what's being suggested.) This morning, zypper dup greeted me with
2172 packages to upgrade, 315 to downgrade, 660 new, 37 to reinstall, 300 to remove, 383 to change vendor, 14 to change arch. Overall download size: 2.43 GiB.
A rolling release would have fed these into the repository over the course of the last 8 months or so when they were ready and tested in smaller increments/bundles, not as one huge jump. You know, much like "We're not going to do the 1.0/1.2/1.4/2.0/2.2/2.4/2.6 thing any more", because such major releases were not considered appropriate for todays world? ;-) (Incidentally, the downgrades are those where Tumbleweed/12.1 already had the same version but a higher build number. That's also not supposed to happen in a rolling release ;-) And some packages, like vim, actually did experience a minor version downgrade.) Regards, Lars -- Architect Storage/HA SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) "Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes." -- Oscar Wilde -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org