Another great update

[Michał Piotrowski]

2010/3/6 Naheem Zaffar <naheemzaffar at gmail.com>:
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> 2010/3/6 Michał Piotrowski <mkkp4x4 at gmail.com>
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>> Why I can install KDE 4.4 in F11 and I can't install latest gnome?
>> (I'm just asking because I'm curious, not because I use Linux on
>> desktop)
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> I think for many people the issue is not that it can be an update (maybe the
> enhancements etc are useful to someone).
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> As an end user, I would think there should be asafety precaution on non
> urgent updates to go through updates-testing.
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> FTR, I DO like and want feature updates.
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> Updates-testing will not catch everything, but it should help catch soime
> "nuclear" issues that otherwise may have sneaked past.
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> I think the current update process is very good and well liked by me. But
> tweaking it is not a big problem.
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> PS other places that have more stable updates also have their problems -
> there are many users who dislike Ubuntu because bugs are not fixed and they
> have to live with them far too long.
>

I generally agree with your POV for actual stable F12 - latest and
greatest updates for peoples who likes bleeding edge. But previous
stable (F11) IMHO should be considered as "in maintenance mode" -
security and bug fixes only.

Just my 0.02 $.

Regards,
Michal