Thomas Janssen (thomasj(a)fedoraproject.org) said:
> When there's no policy, and the user has to guess whether or
not they
> need to do this for every package on their system, however, you have
> a mess.
Well, except there's nothing to guess. The regular user should by all
means know what a security fix is. As well as a bugfix. And i think
the regular user knows as well what an enhancement is. So he can
decide very well what he want.
Except you expect from future users to be even more dumb than bread.
So, a user starts out with kdelibs-4.2.2 in Fedora 11, and decides to
only take security updates.
Their update path is now:
4.2.2 ->
4.2.4 ->
4.3.1 <end>
Say they take security and bugfix. Their upgrade path is now:
4.2.2 ->
4.2.3 ->
4.2.4 ->
4.3.1 ->
4.3.2 ->
4.3.3 ->
4.3.4 ->
4.3.5 ->
4.4.0
How is the user supposed to 'by all means' know that that is
sensible?
Bill