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 -- ==> RH List Archive: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=redhat-list&r=1&w=2 <== ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas Ribbrock http://www.ribbrock.org "You have to live on the edge of reality - to make your dreams come true!" -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list