-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 houghi wrote: > On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 11:53:22PM +0200, Pascal Bleser wrote: >> (and I do speak about _unsupported_ upgrades). > > I think there is an issue there. Many people want to run the latest > whatever for whatever reason. With SUSE they have the choice between > security patches or running the latest version.
Correct. > I understand the technical reason. However I believe there is a real > demand from users, that I see, about running the latest version of e.g. > KDE. Yes. It's probably the most recurrent question on IRC (#suse and #opensuse): "how to install KDE 3.5.2", or "how to install GNOME 2.14" (well, now that 10.1 is released, unfortunately the most recurring question is "why is yast2 frozen or crashing when I install packages" - no offense intended, but that's how it is) > Unfortunatly they then loose security updates when they do this. Indeed. > Is there not a way around this? e.g. having more then one YOU and having > unsupported upgrades as well? I think that would put a big burden on packagers. - From my experience with the supplementary KDE repository, when critical bugfixes and/or security fixes are necessary, their are being incorporated into those packages. Usually 2 or 3 days after the Online Update, which is understandable, but they are. So the situation is not as critical as it might appear. cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _\_v The more things change, the more they stay insane. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEckXxr3NMWliFcXcRAoc2AKCMktEr9T3r2xUR210pHpTC1mLIIACgq4M4 6FH/CHlpiHb6UpNuu0VgyBA= =z+oL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
