Worthless updates

[James Antill]

On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 20:33 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Peter Jones wrote:
> 
> > On 03/03/2010 01:17 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> >> Mathieu Bridon wrote:
> >>> In the end, I think the question is not about giving users what users
> >>> want (be it frequent updates or stalled releases), but giving users
> >>> what we see as a better deal for them.
> >> 
> >> I think wanting to decide for your users is a really arrogant attitude.
> > 
> > But that's exactly what you do with rebases during a stable release.
> 
> It's the user's choice to use a progressive distribution such as Fedora 
> rather than a semi-conservative one like Ubuntu or a conservative one like 
> RHEL/CentOS or Debian stable.

 "choosing a sane update policy for users" == bad! Users should be
allowed to choose!

 "choosing to dump almost anything you want into stable" == good! Users
can always go use another distro. if they don't agree with me!


/me wondering why I'm even reading this thread anymore