On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Richard Hughes <hughsient@gmail.com> wrote:

On 13 April 2013 23:09, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@chello.at> wrote:
> Sure you can! It's a basic rule of QA that small isolated changes can be
> debugged much better than a huge hodgepodge of many totally unrelated
> changes.

Not true for the majority of GNOME and KDE packages. You can't test
gnome-control-center 3.9.1 without installing gnome-settings-daemon
3.9.1 as well.

A desktop environment should be a comparatively small subset of the overall universe of packages (in particular, when compared to the applications written for that desktop environment), so optimizing the distribution update system for desktop environment updates doesn't make that much sense. Desktop environment updates can be published as a group with the current model already.

Mirek