[Mageia-dev] How will be the realese cycle?

[Olivier Méjean]

Le jeudi 7 octobre 2010 13:00:21, Marc Paré a écrit :
> 
> I would challenge people to find a regular user who knew what the
> "Backport" option was for, you may find some but clearly, they would be
> in the minority. Otherwise, it would have been used quite extensively by
> users. This is exactly what a user is usually interested in updating
> his/her installation.

Backport was a media added for Mandriva 2007 in order to provide latest 
versions of software. However, backport rpms were (and are) not officially 
supported by Mandriva on the contrary of rpms in main (either /main/release or 
/main/updates)

That make sense for a company based distribution to operate such a 
discrimination, i am not sure that we have to follow such a way in a 
community-driven distribution.

Olivier