On 04.11.2013 19:25, Florian Müllner wrote:
On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Kevin Kofler
<kevin.kofler(a)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.
This sounds like a good use case for virtualization. You test your
unstable apps in your test environment with other unstable software and
don't need to destroy your workstation. If I were using Kate (to follow
your example) for my daily work I wouldn't risk making it unusable on my
system.
Mateusz Marzantowicz