Sebastien Bacher <[email protected]> wrote:
>Le 05/09/2012 14:43, Scott Kitterman a écrit : >> Unless you want a BSD like o/s - applications split, this new process >is not going to affect core apps like Chromium or Gimp. >Not sure what you call "BSD like", but it would be great if e.g Gimp >was >moved out of universe to the end of upstream and maintained in a more >flexible way that what we do at the moment, they would probably do a >way >better job than we do (we have number of upstreams who are unhappy >about >us shipping a version "known to be buggy" of their code in our stable >release, or distro patching things in a way they don't approve of, or >not taking updates to fix the issues they fixed on their side for >months). BSD Unix's ship their core o/s in /usr and this is what is released with a new "release". All applications install into /usr/local and are continually updated through their various ports systems: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ports_collection IME, the Debian/Ubuntu archives do a far better job providing a consistent, reliable experience than you get from such an approach and we would be heading down the wrong road to try and replicate it. Scott K -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
