GNOME Vs KDE upgradeability.

[Gain Paolo Mureddu]

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Matthias Clasen wrote:

>
> It is not *that* much more complex to build all of gnome, although
> there are some packages lower in the stack which may have tight
> dependencies on newish kernels, like hal. It took me ~1.5 days to
> get the recent 2.13.90 release of Gnome into rawhide.
>
> It is more a result of limited resources, which we prefer to spend
> on the next release, rather than the previous one...
>
> Matthias

Still, the expected lifespan of any given Fedora release is of about
one year before moving to Legacy, and there has been a lot of "cross
updates" availabe for Core 3 and 4 when 3 was still "current" (i.e
before moving to Legacy).

And another thing... This may be more suited for the -devel list than
this one, but here goes as it has to do with the desktop functionality
(rather than direct development, though): Is there any plan in place
to phase out moves from "current" to Legacy of any Fedora vesion by
providing the necessary yum configurations as updates when the Legacy
infrastructure is in place to provide the scarse update packages? It'd
be nice to have the default configuration automatically replaced with
updated repository data, makes migration seamless.
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