[Mageia-discuss] Mageia

Mon Sep 20 00:03:34 CEST 2010

2010/9/19 André Machado <andreferreiramachado at yahoo.com.br>
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+> Rolling releases are fine to users, but many sys admins wouldn't use it on
+> a server, by example.
+>
+> If,on the one hand, a rolling-release distro would be more economical and
+> easy to mantain for development team, think that neither all user have high
+> speed connections to download the whole system updated at installation time
+> or update packages day to day.
+>
+> --- Em *dom, 19/9/10, Maarten Vanraes <maarten.vanraes at gmail.com>*escreveu:
+>
+>
+> De: Maarten Vanraes <maarten.vanraes at gmail.com>
+> Assunto: Re: [Mageia-discuss] Mageia
+> Para: mageia-discuss at mageia.org
+> Data: Domingo, 19 de Setembro de 2010, 17:37
+>
+>
+> Op zondag 19 september 2010 21:50:07 schreef Samuel Verschelde:
+> > Le dimanche 19 septembre 2010 21:41:14, HacKurx a écrit :
+> > > First of all excuse me for my English.
+> > >
+> > > I am one who thinks that rolling release distributions sounds the
+> future.
+> > > Why?
+> > > Because the user no longer has to worry about are system and benefits
+> > > from recent versions of software.
+> > >
+> > > Now on libraries, xorg etc.... it may very well release a new version
+> for
+> > > inclusion.
+> > > So imagine every six months a new version but in the meantime the
+> > > software most used to constantly updated in a repository (this is
+> > > equivalent to ubuntu ppa in some ways but stable and under control).
+> > >
+> > > So I think it would be nice to create a repository "rolling release"
+> > > containing software commonly used example: firefox, vlc, liferea,
+> > > thunderbird, mplayer.
+> > >
+> > > As you will not break the system because no library, xorg etc. will be
+> > > updated.
+> > >
+> > > +1 repository "rolling release" commonly used for software (vlc,
+> smplayer
+> > > etc ...)
+> >
+> > I have no experience with rolling releases, but as I hope that Mageia
+> will,
+> > like Mandriva Linux, remain suitable for desktop, server, and enterprise
+> > use. So I really hope each version will be stable, maintained and
+> > thoroughly tested. I'm not sure that a rolling release permits that.
+> >
+> > Regards
+> >
+> > Samuel
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+Maybe some kind of hybrid?
+
+It's just an idea on my mind but i try to explain:
+
+The system's design, could be as modular as possible. A "core" with the
+basic system and admin tools (including graph or not), and use ideas like
+meta-packages or delta-rpm to include "layers" over it, communicating with
+the core with "connectors" or so.
+
+Using this design, we'll have a fully-stable core system, and we'll can
+focus the "rolling style" to the layers.
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