Le vendredi 24 juin 2011 02:15:03, Michael Scherer a écrit : > Last solution, declare that cherry picking is not supported, or that > people are on their own, and explain the reason. However, people have > been asking this, and recommend this. This would also be against a goal > of having confidence in the backports. > I have always used backports in a total way : if I want latest software against stability, I take them all. Think about little dependencies that still exist (vlc + ffmpeg, etc).
So I would say Mageia has two update modes : - end user (security) mode (updates) - power user (let's try everything) mode (updates+backports) Each user will recognise himself in one of the two modes.
