Reindl Harald wrote:
i am using updates-testing over years and often enough koji-packages
too
there are not much "barely" and problemtaic tested updates at all
if someone wnats a system with less to zero updates he is using the
wrong distribution and better suited with RHEL
+1, the frequent updates are one of Fedora's strengths (see also the "First"
principle). Fewer updates mean fewer bugfixes and thus more bugs!
"truly standalone" is static linked
*no* the people using Linux systems does not want the Windows/Apple
way where everyting carries his whole libraries and never ever get
updated and the ones who think that they want are using the wrong
operating system
that may sound hard but it is the truth
+1 to that, and (ergo) -1 to app-store-like or OS-X-dmg-like applications
which bundle the world. Throwing out decades of work on dependency
resolution and going back to bundling with all its problems
(
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:No_Bundled_Libraries) is not
acceptable.
Kevin Kofler