On Monday, October 10, 2011 06:40:33 PM Sebastien Bacher wrote: > Le lundi 10 octobre 2011 à 12:34 -0400, Scott Kitterman a écrit : > > What rationale would there be for doing that for just Universe? There > > are > > lots of leaf applications in Main and lots of libraries in Universe. > > I think we should consider differently the system and the softwares so > the using main and universe there might be wrong yes... > > Using Ubuntu with Unity (or GNOME) as an example the "system" would be > the plumber, plymouth, lightdm, the desktop shell and the features > integrated with the desktop (image and documents viewers, file manager, > etc). That part should be under a strict process, respect freezes, etc. > > Then we have all the applications stack, basically things that microsoft > users would go to install from the internet or that you would get from > the appstores, those have no reason to have their freezes, schedules, > etc tied to the OS itself or to the shell, they should be easier to > update and be able to follow the rhythms upstream want to use for their > softwares... > > Does it make sense?
It does makes lots of sense. Was a main topic a year ago at the UDS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT5fUcMUfYg is a big and old problem that hasn't seen much progress yet. But there is an old bug about this, which seems to be currently being worked on and/or used as reference/goal: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-center/+bug/578045 -Manuel B. -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
