On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 09:20:11PM +0400, Dmitry Shachnev wrote: > On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 9:10 PM, Colin Watson <cjwat...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > > Serious question: why is GTK+ materially different from the core KDE > > libraries, which typically seem to be updated (even if only by minor > > releases) as part of KDE version bumps? > > Because updating Gtk+ can potentially break the Unity stack and some > components of GNOME we are using in Ubuntu Desktop. Updating core KDE > libraries can break only KDE apps, which are updated to a compatible > version.
Taking a dispassionate neutral point of view, these seem like essentially the same thing; both are confined to a subsystem, and I suspect the number of packages involved is roughly similar. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
