Even though I run cooker, I completely agree with this. I understand you
don't want to provide updates for all previous versions of mandrake, but
software like kde2.1, gnome 1.2, kernel 2.4, and xfree 4.0.2 should be
provided to the most current STABLE version of the software.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christian A Str�mmen [Number1/NumeroUno]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Guillaume Cottenceau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Godin, Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 10:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Cooker] Xfree 4.0.2
> On Wednesday 20 December 2000 22:04, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
> > We can't do everything.
>
> This is FAR from everything...
>
> > We do use MandrakeUpdate for security updates. It already costs
resources
> > because changing something means:
> >
> > - doing it for a number of old distribs (7.2, 7.1, 7.0, 6.1)
> > - backporting the specfiles that have changed with newer versions of RPM
> > - troubleshooting the dependency problems, thus making other packages
> >
> > Think two minutes: what would you like to see in the updates? obviously,
> > for example kde-2, gnome-1.2, xmms-1.2.4, rpm-4, XFree-4, for older
> > distribs such as 7.0. This is an *enormous* amount of work, and, come
on,
> > we release everything on the web very conveniently, so why not upgrading
> > or installing the 7.2..
>
> It's 7.2 I'm talking about!!! So what you're saying is that if I want to
> upgrade my system to the latest stable releases of products, and I want to
> use my distribtion-companies own rpm I have to use a unstable build of the
> whole dis (cooker, and yes, it is unstable!). This is bullshit, think
about
> it. In one way you're saying that we (the customers) should install an
MDK,
> never upgrade anything except if it's a security upgrade, and never get
any
> new version of a program (even when the new version are a lot more stable)
> except for when the next release of the distribution is out... ?
>
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