Harmless KDE feature upgrades - yeah right

[Mike McGrath]

On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Thomas Janssen wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Juha Tuomala <Juha.Tuomala at iki.fi> wrote:
> > On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> >> current stable release nor support an official backports repo, an unofficial
> >> one will no doubt spring up, or an existing unofficial repo will pick up
> >> that role (for KDE, kde-redhat stable would probably be revived, currently
> >> it's mostly empty for Fedora as the kind of stuff which would be in there is
> >> usually just pushed as official Fedora updates).
> >
> > Go ahead, make that to your kde-hardcore-followers-repo. In my
> > understanding, that's what it has been for past years already
> > anyway.
>
> There's no need to continued attack the KDE SIG. You're not a first
> time linuxer. If you're that scared as you said in your OP, then you
> should use yum to exclude that stuff. If you dont know how: man yum ;
> man yum.conf
>
> But of course, you couldn't then bash others.
>

Alternatively, the KDE SIG could stop ignoring the problems that were
caused this week by the updates they released.  Even an "I'm sorry I broke
your desktop" would go a long way.  The update the busted my desktop
happened on a pretty vanilla install, I suspect lots of users experienced
issues.

	-Mike