The updates firehose

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Sun, 2007-06-10 at 07:31 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Sunday 10 June 2007 04:48:16 Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> > I feel like you're saying that Core's "culture" (whatever you mean by that)
> > should have precedence over Extras' and that "your way" is better than
> > "our way". I assure you that Extras maintainers didn't just "fire and
> > forget" their updates. They were tested. Yes, some accidents happened, but
> > that was the price of greater freedom the maintainers used to have. So
> > please don't try to discourage those who managed to put up with all the new
> > obstacles any further.
> 
> I didn't mean to say that Core's was better.  Just different.
Core was worse ... Core maintainers not shipping updated packages was/is
the reason for me to locally rebuild "up-distro" packages or locally
build patched packages.

Ralf