What has happened to desktop icons in rawhide?

[cornel panceac]

2011/1/25 Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com>

> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Rahul Sundaram <metherid at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On 01/25/2011 04:11 PM, Peter Robinson wrote:
> >>
> >> this exact reason. Another classic example of this is updates to
> >> openoffice. There have been 10 updates @ 200Mb odd MB each for oo.o
> >> since the release of F-14 for such critical bugs as "background isn't
> >> transparent" [1] surely these could be bundled together once a month
> >> or so (I thought there was suppose to be a policy about this but I
> >> can't find it).
> >
> > There isn't any such policy suggesting or requiring bundling of bug
> > fixes and trying to mandate it via policy doesn't really seem
> > feasible.   We could talk to the maintainers in question and understand
> > what happened first before trying to stop it.  If it isn't a one off
> > problem, then it makes sense to discuss it in the broader context.
>
> The number of updates in a stable release has been discussed, at
> length. There was even discussion of implementing a policy for it but
> it clearly was never done.
>
>
another thing that can be done is somehow encouraging the creation of delta
rpms, especially for big packages (like ooo).
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