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.