Question about Gnome maintenance releases
Stephen Mirowski
spmirowski at shaw.ca
Thu Apr 13 06:05:34 UTC 2006
Todd Zullinger wrote:
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> Stephen Mirowski wrote:
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>> Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:
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>>> I know that each new version of Fedora Core includes the latest and
>>> greatest Gnome release available at the time. But, what about the
>>> maintenance releases, such as 2.14.1? Are the updates back ported
>>> to the version of Gnome running in the latest Fedora Core release?
>>> Will FC5 see the updates available in Gnome 2.14.1?
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>> Looking at past history, no, we will not be getting the new Gnome.
>> Desktop environments are too complex to be released every two
>> months. You can do it yourself with Garnome (results very), or wait
>> for FC6 which probably will include Gnome 2.16.
>>
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> Take a look in updates/testing/5 and you'll see a bunch of gnome
> 2.14.1 packages already.
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I wonder if that is why www.nrpms.net closed? I wonder if they will do
.2 and .3
as well.
Stephen
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