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+ <B>Tux99</B>
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+ <I>Thu Oct 7 14:27:50 CEST 2010</I>
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+<PRE>On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Buchan Milne wrote:
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+&gt;<i> I don't believe that merely changing to some kind of rolling release will
+</I>&gt;<i> improve matters for end users, they will just be more confused when they find
+</I>&gt;<i> out that to install database support for OpenOffice.org, they need to upgrade
+</I>&gt;<i> all of OpenOffice.org (taking an hour to download ~ 70MB), instead of just
+</I>&gt;<i> being able to install openoffice.org-base (with a 2 minute download of 2MB).
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+This is a misconception, even today with the current Mandriva system the
+user has to download the same 70MB, since security updates are not diffs
+but whole packages.
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+To make it clearer, if the user wants to install oo-base at a later
+point with the currend Mdv model he would have to download 20MB if there
+has been no security updates since release, or 70MB if there has been a
+security update in the meantime.
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+Exactly the same would be the case with a light rolling distro.
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+People who say that a light rolling distro (i.e. where only app upgrades
+are made available mid-cycle, not the core packages) will increase
+downloads for users are simply not thinking this through.
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+No one is forced to download and install the upgrades, a user can just
+only install those upgrades which are also security updates, just like
+he/she would do with the current Mdv model.
+
+A security update or an upgrade imply roughly the same download size,
+since in both cases the whole package is downloaded again, what differs
+is only the version that's being downloaded not the size.
+
+The only real difference between the light rolling distro model
+deescribed earlier in this thread by a few people (including myself) and
+the current Mdv release model, is that security updates of apps are
+provided through version upgrades whenever this is possible, i.e.
+when the version upgrade is not a major upgrade with incompatible
+changes.
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