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

Thu Oct 7 16:22:04 CEST 2010

  On 10/7/2010 7:23 AM, Olivier Méjean wrote:
+> Le jeudi 7 octobre 2010 13:00:21, Marc Paré a écrit :
+>> I would challenge people to find a regular user who knew what the
+>> "Backport" option was for, you may find some but clearly, they would be
+>> in the minority. Otherwise, it would have been used quite extensively by
+>> users. This is exactly what a user is usually interested in updating
+>> his/her installation.
+> Backport was a media added for Mandriva 2007 in order to provide latest
+> versions of software. However, backport rpms were (and are) not officially
+> supported by Mandriva on the contrary of rpms in main (either /main/release or
+> /main/updates)
+>
+> That make sense for a company based distribution to operate such a
+> discrimination, i am not sure that we have to follow such a way in a
+> community-driven distribution.
+>
+> Olivier
+You hit the point precisely. Mandriva's backports was a terrific idea 
+that does not succeed because (1) it is disabled by default and the 
+means to enable it as an update medium are made obscure by intention and 
+design and (2) the strange attitude taken, by some maintainers at least, 
+that anyone using backports is on their own ("Backports are not 
+supported!").
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