On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thomas Janssen (thomasj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) said: >> > When there's no policy, and the user has to guess whether or not they >> > need to do this for every package on their system, however, you have >> > a mess. >> >> Well, except there's nothing to guess. The regular user should by all >> means know what a security fix is. As well as a bugfix. And i think >> the regular user knows as well what an enhancement is. So he can >> decide very well what he want. >> Except you expect from future users to be even more dumb than bread. > > So, a user starts out with kdelibs-4.2.2 in Fedora 11, and decides to > only take security updates. > > Their update path is now: > 4.2.2 -> > 4.2.4 -> > 4.3.1 <end> > > Say they take security and bugfix. Their upgrade path is now: > 4.2.2 -> > 4.2.3 -> > 4.2.4 -> > 4.3.1 -> > 4.3.2 -> > 4.3.3 -> > 4.3.4 -> > 4.3.5 -> > 4.4.0 > > How is the user supposed to 'by all means' know that that is > sensible? Ok, i know what you mean. He has to trust us packagers (not only speaking for KDE, i have as well other software i maintain) that i do the right thing. Especially if it's a complex software like KDE, where bugfixes are not just 2 lines of code to backport. It's still all 4.x series and not a 4.x to 5.x change. And of course if you use KDE as example you cant have only bugfixes without enhancements. I'm not sure if it's the same with GNOME. I dont have any insight there. -- LG Thomas Dubium sapientiae initium -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
