Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems
Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems
Posted Sep 9, 2014 15:19 UTC (Tue) by jonnor (guest, #76768)In reply to: Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems by torquay
Parent article: Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems
>> Except that this won't match up to reality. The current status-quo is that as soon as Gnome version N is released, the Gnome kids don't want anything to do with Gnome version N-1, and certainly much less with version N-2 (ie. Gnome versions < N essentially become AbandonWare).
Currently there is not much of a point in updating older upstream releases, as to get the fixes out to users, each of the NN distributions have to be involved. This process is painful, slow and largely outside control of upstream.
If we had runtimes, which would be distributed directly to end-users by upstream, the potential benefit of fixes would increase significatly. Thus one would at least hope it would happen more frequently.