[Mageia-discuss] Mageia

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2010/9/19 André Machado <andreferreiramachado at yahoo.com.br>

> Rolling releases are fine to users, but many sys admins wouldn't use it on
> a server, by example.
>
> If,on the one hand, a rolling-release distro would be more economical and
> easy to mantain for development team, think that neither all user have high
> speed connections to download the whole system updated at installation time
> or update packages day to day.
>
> --- Em *dom, 19/9/10, Maarten Vanraes <maarten.vanraes at gmail.com>*escreveu:
>
>
> De: Maarten Vanraes <maarten.vanraes at gmail.com>
> Assunto: Re: [Mageia-discuss] Mageia
> Para: mageia-discuss at mageia.org
> Data: Domingo, 19 de Setembro de 2010, 17:37
>
>
> Op zondag 19 september 2010 21:50:07 schreef Samuel Verschelde:
> > Le dimanche 19 septembre 2010 21:41:14, HacKurx a écrit :
> > > First of all excuse me for my English.
> > >
> > > I am one who thinks that rolling release distributions sounds the
> future.
> > > Why?
> > > Because the user no longer has to worry about are system and benefits
> > > from recent versions of software.
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > +1 repository "rolling release" commonly used for software (vlc,
> smplayer
> > > etc ...)
> >
> > I have no experience with rolling releases, but as I hope that Mageia
> will,
> > like Mandriva Linux, remain suitable for desktop, server, and enterprise
> > use. So I really hope each version will be stable, maintained and
> > thoroughly tested. I'm not sure that a rolling release permits that.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Samuel
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Maybe some kind of hybrid?

It's just an idea on my mind but i try to explain:

The system's design, could be as modular as possible. A "core" with the
basic system and admin tools (including graph or not), and use ideas like
meta-packages or delta-rpm to include "layers" over it, communicating with
the core with "connectors" or so.

Using this design, we'll have a fully-stable core system, and we'll can
focus the "rolling style" to the layers.
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