[Mageia-discuss] Mageia

Renaud MICHEL r.h.michel+mageia at gmail.com
Sun Sep 19 22:04:33 CEST 2010


On dimanche 19 septembre 2010 at 21:41, HacKurx wrote :
> Now on libraries, xorg etc.... it may very well release a new version for
> inclusion.
> So imagine every six months a new version but in the meantime the
> software most used to constantly updated in a repository (this is
> equivalent to ubuntu ppa in some ways but stable and under control).
> 
> So I think it would be nice to create a repository "rolling release"
> containing software commonly used example: firefox, vlc, liferea,
> thunderbird, mplayer.
> 
> As you will not break the system because no library, xorg etc. will be
> updated.

From what I understand, what you describe actually correspond to the 
backports media of the actual mandriva. see
http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Policies/SoftwareMedia

-- 
Renaud Michel


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