Re: Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

[Reindl Harald]

Am 04.11.2013 19:25, schrieb Florian Müllner:
>  On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Kevin Kofler
> <kevin.kofler(a)chello.at&gt; 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