[Mageia-dev] How will be the realese cycle?

Thu Oct 7 11:26:33 CEST 2010

On Wednesday, 6 October 2010 16:02:59 Eatdirt wrote:
+> On 06/10/10 15:09, Buchan Milne wrote:
+> > And if you need one specific new package, you will need to upgrade the
+> > majority of your distribution ...
+> > And it is only useful to<  1% of the global population.
+> > 
+> > We don't want the entire Mageia userbase to be almost identical to the
+> > number of people who actually run cooker.
+> 
+> I agree with all your comments; but I also think that this is very sexy.
+> Gentoo is doing this kind of stuff no?
+
+Do you think we should make Gentoo users the only target market?
+
+Sorry, but I don't know anyone who runs Gentoo anymore, most of them got fed 
+up because every time they wanted to install something, many other packages 
+had to be rebuilt. Trying to support new users on it is difficult, because 
+almost everyone's installation is different.
+
+> If all pro around are against this, I think we should at least be able
+> to upgrade a version directly from urpmi without the boot iso CD story!
+
+Well, this has been possible since at least Mandrake 9.0, maybe even before 
+(8.1? 8.2?), and since about 2009.0 has been available even without using the 
+command line.
+
+So, I don't see what you are arguing for ...
+
+Regards,
+Buchan
+