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And I think I know what +</I>>>><i> a rolling distro is having Cooker and all :). light/heavy makes no +</I>>>><i> sense here. +</I>>>><i> +</I>>><i> I give up, i'm not sure if it's a communication problem or if you are +</I>>><i> simply pretending not to understand to wind us up. +</I>>><i> +</I>Actually, Ahmad is not the only one who doesn't seem to understand. +Currently with Mandriva you can update to newer versions of an +application, which often entails updating a large number of packages. I +don't see what this so-called rolling distro would accomplish. + +><i> Well, according to you I don't understand what you're saying, and also +</I>><i> Michael doesn't understand what you're saying, but maybe it's +</I>><i> coincidence? +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I can only speak for myself though, IMHO, a rolling distro model +</I>><i> wouldn't work well in Mageia. It'll mean more work for packagers and +</I>><i> instead of packagers +</I>><i> concentrating/working-more/giving-more-of-their-free-time before a +</I>><i> release is pushed to polish their packages / fix critical bugs in +</I>><i> them, the workload will increase throughout the whole year, because +</I>><i> new versions are released all the time by upstream. +</I>><i> +</I>I agree +>>><i> It's not I'll-work-my-own-way-and-do-what-I-want, any packager can do +</I>>>><i> so in his own repo/distro. There'll be rules which should be followed +</I>>>><i> even in a community-driven distro, otherwise it'll be chaos. +</I>>>><i> +</I>>><i> Sure, guidelines on how to package, but not on what particular package a +</I>>><i> specific packager has to package otherwise it wouldn't be a fun project +</I>>><i> but rather unpaid drudge work. +</I>><i> I was mainly talking about major version upgrades in stable releases, +</I>><i> whether they go to backports or updates, that'll be according to the +</I>><i> policy the project leaders agree on. Packaging policies should always +</I>><i> be used, to maintain the quality of the packages in the distro. +</I>><i> +</I>Right - unless we want Mageia to be known as a hacker's distro :/ +><i> FWIW the argument that a rolling distro will cause less mirror size is +</I>><i> a bit wrong, main/updates + main/backports are always much smaller +</I>><i> than main/release, the same goes for contrib (though contrib/release +</I>><i> is bigger than all other repos put together). +</I>><i> +</I>That reminds me of another point. (Off topic, I know) +The idea of having a core group of essential applications, and putting +everything else (except non-free) into contrib would make the size of +contrib even more unbalanced. + +- André (andre999) +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="000982.html">[Mageia-dev] How will be the realese cycle? +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="000938.html">[Mageia-dev] How will be the realese cycle? +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#937">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#937">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#937">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#937">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |