[CentOS] xfce in CentOS 5.1 "extras" repository

Ioannis Vranos ivranos at freemail.gr
Wed Dec 5 12:31:31 UTC 2007


Johnny Hughes wrote:
> Ioannis Vranos wrote:
>> Hi, I am using CentOS 5.1 x86 (upgraded from 5.0), and am still using
>> XFCE 4.4.1 from 5.0 "extras" repository. Just saw in XFCE site that they
>> released 4.4.2. Any chance to see it in 5.1 "extras" repository?
> 
> Maybe, but probably not.
> 
> Just like the Gnome and KDE that come with CentOS is not likely to
> change versions throughout the lifetime of CentOS ... major items in
> extras the XFCE are also likely not to change.
> 
> The purpose of Enterprise software is stability and stable APIs / ABIs.
> 
> I'm sure that Fedora 8 or 9 will have then new versions of XFCE, but
> CentOS will not normally upgrade items as large as XFCE without a
> compelling reason.
> 
> CentOS-5 will probably never get KDE-4 or openoffice-2.3 or any number
> of other major upgrades that will become available in its lifetime.
> latest and greatest is just not the model that CentOS is based on.
> 
> That said ... it is POSSIBLE that XFCE could be upgraded, just not likely.


But XFCE 4.4.2 is a bug fix release.



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