John Dong jdong at ubuntu.com
Tue Nov 1 10:14:06 CST 2005


Don't get me wrong -- I like the idea :)

On 11/1/05, Stephan Hermann <sh at sourcecode.de> wrote:
>
> Hey John,
>
> well...I was just thinking about the future ,-)
>
> Wasn't there a BOF which should discuss point releases of gnome or kde
> as "dapper-updates"?
>
> Regards,
> \sh
> Am Dienstag, den 01.11.2005, 10:56 -0500 schrieb John Dong:
> > To the Developers listening in (or being spammed to listen in ;-) ):
> >
> > What do you feel about \sh's suggestion of "upgrading gnome or kde"?
> >
> > Surely that'll take kdelibs or libgnome*, qt/gtk updates and such
> > upward dependencies.
> >
> > On 11/1/05, Stephan Hermann <sh at sourcecode.de> wrote:
> > Hi Guys,
> >
> > Am Montag, den 31.10.2005, 11:29 -0600 schrieb Travis
> > Watkins:
> > > On 10/31/05, John Dong <jdong at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > > > Give us some more information -- what's the error message?
> > We aren't
> > > > psychic.
> > > >
> > >
> > > There is no error, he just wants to get new apps and such
> > without
> > > upgrading his entire distro. Personally I'd rather get all
> > the new
> > > features of GNOME and etc and upgrade but he seems to be
> > stuck in his
> > > ways. He is threatening to go back to windows to try to get
> > us to give
> > > him what he wants. I say let him go, we don't need greedy
> > > manipulators.
> >
> > First of all, I think it's quite ok to ask for "new stuff" in
> > hoary.
> > If it's possible to upgrade gnome or kde via ubuntu-backports
> > let's do
> > it.
> > If it's too much efford, because of new things in gnome, which
> > is
> > requiring a new toolchain etc. then you should not backport
> > the new
> > crack.
> > But annoying people to name them "greedy manipulators" is not
> > a good
> > idea. Better to stop hitting the reply button to those mails
> > then.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > \sh
> >
> >
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