Tech Spec: Software Updates

Michael Catanzaro mcatanzaro at gnome.org
Wed Feb 26 17:17:49 UTC 2014


On Wed, 2014-02-26 at 09:58 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> Also worth stressing again that offline updates for everything are not
> the ideal end-state. If applications are separated enough from the OS,
> it will be safe (and very desirable) to allow updating them online.

"OS" updates occur much more frequently than application updates, at
least in Fedora. Sure, there's a new LibreOffice build every week or so,
but other than that, application updates are relatively uncommon.
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