Keeping old versions of packages

[Miloslav Trmač]

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

> On 13 April 2013 23:09, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at 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
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