Johnny Hughes wrote: > Ross S. W. Walker wrote: >> I don't know if this has been talked about much in the past, but I was >> wondering if CentOSplus could be used to carry the latest stable versions >> of the GUI applications KDE/Gnome. These apps often lag behind quite a >> bit even on the selected stable branch upstream has chosen. >> >> For example, would it decrease stability to update KDE from 3.5.4 to >> 3.5.8? I think it would add to stability as long as you stay within that >> 3.5 branch, but upstream thinks otherwise and tries to re-invent the >> wheel by backporting 3.5.5-3.5.8 fixes into 3.5.4 which often don't work >> completely and have the potential of creating new bugs themselves. >> >> Another thing, Xen, the Xen package says it's 3.0.3, but looking at the >> SRPM it turns out it's the Xen 3.1 kernel with the Xen 3.0.3 'xm' and >> 'xend' dom0 utilities. In my book that's Xen 3.1, why not just fix the >> parts of the 3.1 utilities that broke between releases? >> >> Anyways Xen may not be a good candidate as others may have environmental >> dependencies on the upstream version, but upgrading to the latest minor >> version within a branch for a given application shouldn't break >> environmental dependencies, ie provide Xen 3.1.4 if it contains the xm >> and xend fixes that upstream was looking for. >> >> What is the consenus on this? >> > > WRT the major desktops ... I am not sure that I would want to do that. > > There are so many things that change that I would think it would be > easier to just use fedora. > > There is a kde-redhat project for KDE that will do that for you: > http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.net/ That said, I'd be open to help integrating some or all of anything at kde-redhat (or epel pkgs I'm involved with) into centos(plus) or whatever. I'd likely need some help/hand-holding, but otherwise sounds useful. -- Rex