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

[Ahmad Samir]

On 14 October 2010 16:14, Tux99 <tux99-mga at uridium.org> wrote:
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> Quote: Ahmad Samir wrote on Thu, 14 October 2010 16:00

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>> Enabling them by default defies the purpose of having backports at
>> all; it's not for new users, it's more for slightly experienced users
>> or power users who want the latest versions of apps.
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> That's exactly the crucial bit that IMHO needs to change, backports are
> very interesting for 'normal' users so we should make sure normal users
> can use them.
> Don't you see how attractive it is especially for 'normal' users to have
> access to the latest versions all the time?
> Sure, not everyone wants them, but by integrating the skip.list in the
> update GUI we could keep 'conservative' users happy too.
>

Then you're not talking about new users any more...

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Ahmad Samir