I don't appreciate getting hate mail from people simply because I was politely TALKING ABOUT DEBIAN on the debian-user list.
I don't know where you get your communications and people skills, Keshwarsingh Nadan, but if I were you I would take them back! For a full refund! Telling a Debian user that she should get lost because her view is different than yours is pretty stone age, sorry. And I do NOT appreciate it. I think YOU are the person who should move on. Like scram. --- On Mon, 2/14/11, k...@debian.mu <k...@debian.mu> wrote: > From: k...@debian.mu <k...@debian.mu> > Subject: Re: New policies? > To: "Erin Brinkley" <erinbrink...@ymail.com>, debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Monday, February 14, 2011, 6:53 PM > Why would you love to "upgrade > software incrementally all the time"?? > > Its stable/tested, CERTIFIEd to work fine, that's all.. > > Move to another distro like fedora if you love to "upgrade > software incrementally all the time". > > kn > Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device > > -----Original Message----- > From: Erin Brinkley <erinbrink...@ymail.com> > Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 10:32:20 > To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> > Subject: Re: New policies? > > "Hans-J. Ullrich" <hans.ullr...@loop.de> > wrote: > > > I will be pleased if my suggestion is worth to start a > discussion of it. > > Great suggestion! Couldn't have said it better myself! Not > even close! > > One thing I would like to add is that when Debian has a > major upgrade, it > should ALWAYS keep your config files. I know that it asks > whether you want > to install the new maintainer version or keep your old, but > this is always > a headache. I think the best answer is to merge the new > features/options > with the current existing user's version. Because whenever > I choose to go > with the new, I might get new options but all my > customizations are gone > and I have to go find the old config and figure it all out > from scratch. > If I just keep the old, then I loose all the new options > and this > sometimes breaks things too. It's probably the #1 user > problem when > upgrading. > > Also, for work systems I always just use stable. I don't > need the newest > version if it means something might break. But I do feel > like things are > getting harder to keep up, like maybe "stable" is getting > too old. It > would be nice as you say to upgrade some of the big > packages slowly, > somehow, without breaking 100 other dependencies. But I > would personally > LOVE it if from now on Debian "stable" were just an > incremental upgrade. > > No more Toy Story names, but you just pick stable or > unstable or testing > or experimental, and then upgrades happen incrementally, > slowly, every day > or every week instead of every year or year and a half you > have this huge > upgrade that breaks everything and causes mass chaos for > about a week. (I > went from 5.0 to 6.0 last week and am still picking up the > pieces all over > the place...) > > Is something like this doable / desirable or do we have to > just wait every > year or so and then do a major upgrade? Like I said I would > SO prefer to > just upgrade software incrementally all the time. It would > reduce user > headaches plus it would keep Debian much more up to date. > > Erin > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/387588.48878...@web114602.mail.gq1.yahoo.com > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/719637.44630...@web114614.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
