Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

Florian Müllner fmuellner at gnome.org
Mon Nov 4 18:25:16 UTC 2013


On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> 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.


More information about the devel mailing list