KDE vs. GNOME on F10

[Matthew Woehlke]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 11:05 -0500, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>> For me, that's easy. I don't want updates that the packagers don't 
>> consider "stable". It sure sounds to me like Christopher feels the same way.
>>
>> I am willing to take the latest upstream builds because the maintainer 
>> considers them "safe". I am not willing to use rawhide because it's 
>> considered a free-for-all. (I don't use updates-testing either, which 
>> IMO if I slurped everything relevant from updates-testing, would be 
>> about the same thing as using rawhide.)
> 
> So if rawhide had an updates-testing like repo, you wouldn't mind using
> it?

If that put an end to stuff like 'sorry, that last glibc rpm bricks your 
system if you have the misfortune of installing it'... maybe. As I said, 
right now my "line" is "packages that the maintainers consider stable". 
If "rawhide" became that (and some new "rawhide-testing" or such for the 
current free-for-all), then I suppose I might use it. I'd also ask how 
that differs in any significant way from a rolling release.

To be clear, 1. I would be in favor of a rolling release system, and 2. 
development /needs/ a "free for all" environment. So please don't take 
the above as being in any way opposed to such an environment existing... 
just so long as I can opt out of it ;-).

Oh, and on a related note, it would be really helpful if it was possible 
to enable updates-testing only for certain packages (and when needed, 
dependencies thereof) on a permanent whitelist basis.

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Matthew
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