Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > So please, Fedora KDE users - comment > these changes! I prefer to get the releases as KDE releases them, instead of having to wait... and wait... and wait... I scanned the Stability Proposal document that had been linked. Here is what I think: As I had expected, breaking up the monolithic packages into individual packages is a whole lot of unnecessary work. Better to provide releases as they occur, than to waste time unnecessarily breaking down the monolithic packages. To what end and benefit? Who, nowadays, doesn't have at least one hard drive of at least 80-100GB, likely more (I have 3 drives, 2x300GB and1x200GB, the latter an old pata that will eventually get phased out, and I actually use only about 80GB for my own archives! That's a lot of space to spare). I think it is unnecessary to provide the latest releases for any releases except the current and rawhide. If people don't bother to upgrade to the current release, then they obviously don't care to run a cutting edge system, so there is no point in providing it at the expense of a whole lot of work. It only takes an evening to download a live cd, install it, and do some rudimentary configurations. The rest can be achieved as one actually uses the system, so there is no excuse for not running the latest release. Considering that a lot of the work is done by volunteers (or are you, all you redhat/fedora people?), this is a fabulous system all for free and not even money can purchase anything better. Yes, it is true that KDE 4 has matured immensely and it truly is difficult to notice all of the improvements and bug fixes. Nevertheless, I personally do enjoy finding the occasional irritating quirk disappear after a yum update. Definitely, old releases should receive only the necessary bug fixes, not new features. This is a terrible waste of manpower. Fedora advertises and distinguishes itself from other distros by being cutting edge. This is what I expect (although I would not likely jump ship, were the aforementioned changes implemented), as there is no other distro offering cutting edge and stability and quality, as fedora does. To save man-hours, it might be better to scrap kde-redhat and just stick to updates and updates- testing. I would enable updates-testing (and sometimes I even pull something off koji manually), but many would stick to the safer route of just enabling updates. It is a waste of time for a cutting edge distro to support old versions. I can say, that aside from a very rare scare for a night, I have had no reason not to be ecstatic about this distro and the benefits of running it. No other distro offers what fedora offers. The musings of an avid fedora user. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
