Distribution quote of the week

Why should update policies for the kernel, dbus, firefox, inkscape, xorg-x11-server, and cowsay be the same? Does that make sense? If an update breaks my graphics, I can't use anything. If an update breaks cowsay, well... my clever MOTD is a little less clever but it shouldn't break other apps. So why not bundle critical stuff that'll really hurt our users in a huge way — the basics like networking, graphical display, hardware support, i18n input methods, sound — and put much more stringent guidelines on them than apps like figlet, xbiff, or xbill? If an application is relatively self-contained and can really only break itself — is it so necessary to be as strict about updates to it within a stable release?