[Mageia-dev] Question about backports: calibre (bug 1659)

[Samuel Verschelde]

Le jeudi 16 juin 2011 00:57:45, Radu-Cristian FOTESCU a écrit :
> Well, first of all, I never liked the _concept_ of backports. Too many
> repositories, too complex tree already. One of the reasons I wasn't very
> fond of Mandriva (the other reason being the IaOra theme(s).)
> 

Or, like some of us try to bring for the future, we could make backports easy 
to use, without the user having to cope with the underlying mirror structure 
complexity. If for each application that doesn't need big lib changes you had 
2 available versions, one that doesn't add new features but only fixes, and one 
that brings the latest upstream version, wouldn't it be good for you AND for 
those who want stability above all ? (with the ability to have a mixed 
approach : updates for most packages and backports for some of them).

I agree that currently backports are not easy to use, but we're trying to 
solve that, without sacrificing stability for those who need it (especially 
institutions, schools, universities, and all environments with many computers 
to maintain). 

Samuel