[Mageia-dev] Question about backports: calibre (bug 1659)

Thu Jun 16 10:28:22 CEST 2011

+Le jeudi 16 juin 2011 00:57:45, Radu-Cristian FOTESCU a écrit :
+> Well, first of all, I never liked the _concept_ of backports. Too many
+> repositories, too complex tree already. One of the reasons I wasn't very
+> fond of Mandriva (the other reason being the IaOra theme(s).)
+> 
+
+Or, like some of us try to bring for the future, we could make backports easy 
+to use, without the user having to cope with the underlying mirror structure 
+complexity. If for each application that doesn't need big lib changes you had 
+2 available versions, one that doesn't add new features but only fixes, and one 
+that brings the latest upstream version, wouldn't it be good for you AND for 
+those who want stability above all ? (with the ability to have a mixed 
+approach : updates for most packages and backports for some of them).
+
+I agree that currently backports are not easy to use, but we're trying to 
+solve that, without sacrificing stability for those who need it (especially 
+institutions, schools, universities, and all environments with many computers 
+to maintain). 
+
+Samuel
+
+