On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 05:13:23PM -0400, James Carlson wrote: > Stephen Hahn writes: > > > The system will allow groups of packages to be co-delivered with > > matched versions (and with constrained version flow). Departing from > > the version flow of those groups will require an explicit act by the > > deployer. > > My read of that implies that (except as done by "explicit act" and > therefore likely well off the beaten and supportable path), the user > can choose only points along a version line for the group as a whole, > and not individual points for a single component within that group. > "In for a penny, in for a pound" on updates at a consolidation level.
That's precisely it. We want customers to install what we've built and tested. See Bart's "No dim-sum patching" blog entry, which is exactly this. Note that we won't prevent people from doing whatever they want, but if they don't follow (one of) the streams of change we publish, we won't support them. Presumably any distro maintainer without an excess of spare time on their hands would do the same. Danek
