On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 04:04:06PM -0000, Cannon, Andrew wrote:
> >As for kde 3.1, it came out at the end of January, 3 months after RH 8.0 .
> >Given the fact that Red Hat having a time machine is highly improbable,
> >I fail to see the point.
> 
> Yes, and we are now in March. up2date is meant to keep our systems "up to
> date" (hence the name). It seems to me that Red Hat are lagging behind the
> times a little here. (Or could it be that they just don't want us to run KDE
> on our systems??)

It has been RH's policy *not* to update packages within one release
unless there are security fixes that cannot be backported to the older
version. They've done it that way for ages and I sure hope they're not
going to change that policy. Imagine someone admining a group of
machines. He gets a security update that is a version update at the
same time, so most likely it'll break some configuration files - which
in turn needs to be tracked down and tested. That is *not* a desirable
situation. No, I'm all for keeping updates to bugfixes *only* within
one release - if I want new features, I either do it myself, or I wait
for the next release of the distro.

My EUR0.02,

Thomas
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