[Mageia-dev] Release cycles proposals, and discussion

Tue Jun 14 15:43:45 CEST 2011

Le mardi 14 juin 2011 à 07:55 +0200, Thorsten van Lil a écrit :
+> Am Montag, 13. Juni 2011, 23:28:04 schrieb Renaud MICHEL:
+> > On lundi 13 juin 2011 at 23:06, Thorsten van Lil wrote :
+> > > A rolling release has following advantages:
+> > > 1. the distribution is always up to date (also hardware support)
+> > > 2. no re-install over and over again
+> > 
+> > I don't get it why people think a re-install is necessary.
+> > My current computer was installed with mandriva 2007 (don't remember if it
+> > was .0 or .1), it is now mageia 1 and has been updated to all intermediary
+> > mdv releases.
+> 
+> An Upgrade is nearly the same, than reinstalling. The difference is only, that 
+> you can use your system in the mean time and you are not forced to install the 
+> missing packages. 
+
+Rolling is just the same as upgrade, except it take X months to do it
+with a small change everyday instead of having thing upgraded every X
+months.
+
+> > > This could look like this:
+> > > Bring up a release once a year. The core (kernel, glib, ...) will only
+> > > get  minor updates. Apllications like firefox, libreoffice, ... will
+> > > always be up to date (rolling). Maybe also the desktop envirenments
+> > > could be rolling but this is very heavy.
+> > 
+> > If I understood correctly, that is exactly what the backports should
+> > provide, new versions of programs when possible (no update of half of the
+> > core system libraries).
+> > 
+> 
+> Yes, but Backports are not officially supported and we wouldn't advice new users 
+> to backports normally. 
+
+I am sorry, but I fail to follow your reasoning.
+
+Why wouldn't you do a comparison where in one case not recommend
+backports, and in the others, recommend them for the whole system ?
+
+If this is for ressource related reasons, why would we have the
+ressources in one case and not in the others ? 
+
+And as I said in another mail, if people want to follow arch linux and
+do a better job, maybe they should start to explain what are the weak
+points of the distribution and then do proposal on stuff that can be
+done better instead of asking to copy cat hoping this would be better.
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+