On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 04:04:06PM -0000, Cannon, Andrew wrote: > 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??)
up2date does not mean apply any all changes that every product developer out decides to release. Many break binary compatibility, so they're automatically rejected until the next release. Some have a gazillion other dependencies. Some may require a hardware upgrade, and some just don't even work. Others require extensive testing. Any update for 8.0 *must* be binary compatible with *every* Red Hat 8.0 system out there. That means that if I install an application built and installed on KDE 3.0, that application must not require an update if up2date decides to blast KDE 3.1 on my system. Doing otherwise would negatively impact a lot of users. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
