Where are we going? (Not a rant)

[Matthew Miller]

On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 09:32:01AM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> In general, adding packages in an update is actually a fairly safe thing
> to do, as it's very unlikely to disturb any existing setups unless some
> of those packages somehow provide stuff existing packages might depend
> on. You have to explicitly install the new packages in order to be in
> any way 'affected' by them. I thought the updates policy mentioned this,
> but I can't find it any more.

Seems like yet another reason to separate the leaf features from
major-update features.


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