On 25 Mar 2001 14:41:19 +0200, Nicolas Pomarede wrote:
> All in all, I find it very annoying to be forced to upgrade the whole
> system to install only a few recent packages (not that I don't like
> upgrading to the latest MDK distrib, it's just I'd like to do it 'step by
> step' before resintalling the whole distrib).
I have to agree with this. The main reason I got interested in cooker
was that Evolution 0.8 has been acting flakey on my 7.2 box for months
now and I wanted the latest version, but 7.2 seems to be a dead product
now as far as packagers are concerned. (I am, of course, interested in
cooker for other reasons now. :-) )
When Redhat went from 6.2 to 7.0, everyone was releasing packages to
work with both versions, because of the major changes to gcc and such in
7.0. They knew there were going to be people who didn't want to upgrade
their distributions but still wanted to use the latest programs with
their current distro. I mean, LM7.2 was made officially available for
download October 30th of last year (per the news page). That's less
than 5 months ago. I barely got comfy in the distro before it was
shelved and everyone moved on to the next one. I realize it's a
resource thing - finding enough people to maintain two distros, finding
enough hardware to maintain two distros, etc. But LM has always struck
me as the most consumer friendly distro, and consumers are not about to
completely change their systems every 5 months just to fit the whim of
the developers. Look at how M$ gets raked over the coals any time they
make a major change. And they only do it ever year or two.
To be clear, this is NOT a rant about the whole
gcc/glibc/samegnome/<other -system won't run without it- library>
upgrades. Upgrades and forward momentum are good. But we can't just
throw everything away and start over every few month.
2 cents dispensed.
Eaon
