On 04.11.2013 19:25, Florian Müllner wrote: > On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Florian Müllner wrote: >>> ... or users having to update their *entire* system to >>> unstable/experimental versions if they want to try the lastest >>> Firefox/Libreoffice/Eclipse >> >> Then either upstream or the Fedora packager should just build the unstable >> version against the stable Fedora in a PPA. See e.g. kde-unstable for KDE >> betas. > > This does not work if the unstable package depends on an unstable > version of a dependency shared with the stable system, e.g. if kate > depends on an experimental Qt version, your current choice is to not > test it or have all of KDE use an unstable version of Qt. > This sounds like a good use case for virtualization. You test your unstable apps in your test environment with other unstable software and don't need to destroy your workstation. If I were using Kate (to follow your example) for my daily work I wouldn't risk making it unusable on my system. Mateusz Marzantowicz -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
