Am 04.11.2013 19:25, schrieb Florian Müllner: > 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. and in that case you think you da anybody a favor looking at the big picture by having 2,3,4,5 different versions of libraries statically linked and nobody cares about security updates of the bundles? in a perfect world they would get updates because the bundeled libraries in the real life *nobody* will care as long the app runs
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