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With PPA's it's meant to be known as well that they + may be buggy, because usually they have just been made by + developers/packagers or something like that I think, and not gone + through a proper Quality Assurance process. Really they are meant to + be aimed at more experienced users, but it seems that more recently + since 2008 or something like that, that quite a lot of less + experienced Ubuntu users may also have at least one PPA installed. + Also to many installed PPA's can cause issues with the Ubuntu + install.<br> + <br> + I have been thinking before about the current Mageia release cycle + and when it comes to Gnome. Since the 9 months release cycle for + example, it seems that sometimes a new major version of Gnome will + have to be skipped, as in not offered by Mageia as an update for any + supported stable final release at the time. I am not a developer, + but I assume those versions of Gnome can be put into Cauldron and + then backported to the current stable release as well, or put into + something like a PPA for users to install into final Mageia + releases. As for Cauldron it should keep on having the latest + versions of Gnome, usually development versions.<br> + <br> + In general most Desktop Linux users want the latest final versions + of the software that they use it seems, and I think that it would be + good if there was a easy way to offer this for most or all packages. + This is where something like Ubuntu's PPA's would come in.<br> + <br> + I think if Mageia has something like PPA's, they shouldn't need to + require QA from the QA team and it should be known users and + potential users that they may be buggy/unstable. Where as backports + of course will have gone through the Mageia QA team process.<br> + <br> + As for the PPA's themselves or the something like it, would need a + website for it like they have for Ubuntu + <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ppas">https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ppas</a> and they should only be offered + on the site from people who have gone through the Mageia packaging + process and become trusted packagers I think.<br> + <br> + <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/ubuntu-ppa-technology-explained/">http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/ubuntu-ppa-technology-explained/</a><br> + <br> + <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA">https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA</a><br> + <br> + From Sebastian sebsebseb<br> + <br> + <br> + </body> +</html> |