Am Montag, 21. März 2005 18:15 schrieb Andreas Philipp:
Thomas,
El Lun 21 Mar 2005 11:39, Thomas Stieler escribió:
Many rpms that I would expect (such as kdebase-3.4.* ) could not be found within the SuSE-8.2-directory.
What's wrong with the 8.2-binarys?
Well, I last week posted the same question, without getting any answers. I am also still running 8.2 systems, which are stable and doing their job very well. This isn't MS Windows, so why should there be blame if you decide not to upgrade?
Well, see it this way: If you bought Windows 98 many years ago, it will work on the same machine with the same power and the same features. If you bought SuSE 8.2 it had the KDE which was actual at that time. It will still have all this functionality in 100 years. But if you need new features and really new versions of a program (not bugfixes), then you have to upgrade. Often a new version of one program relies on 20-30 newer versions of other programs but then there are 30-40 versions of programs which needs the old version of the other packages and would need an upgrade, too. And then there are another 50 programs......... You get the point. So at a certain point, updating KDE on a box would mean to release 400 or 500 new packages to this system. And all of them might introduce serious unknown bugs, so they would need further testing by SuSE. You just can make that by yourself if you have enough time and knowledge, but SuSE cannot efford to make this incredible work for every release they ever made and then give you the DVD iso of all these versions for free, too. If they would do that, then SuSE would not be availiable for free download, but would cost 400 Euros.... I don't want to offend you, I just want to state my private opinion on this subject. Best, Daniel