No more releases!

[Jason Taylor]

On 25 November 2010 13:03, Christopher Chan
<christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:
> On Thursday, November 25, 2010 02:56 AM, Tommy Trussell wrote:
>
>> Putting my own perspective on this, I think he's talking about
>> separating the support of the core operating system components from
>> the application-level items. This would make people's PERCEPTION of
>> Ubuntu better match people's PERCEPTION of the way an Operating System
>> works as they have been trained under Windows or the Mac OS. A new
>> release of LibreOffice comes out, and you can install it, as long as
>> you're using something we might call "Ubuntu 10.10.78" or later. Under
>> the hood, the software center would keep track of the complexities
>> involved in managing the software in that way.

Maybe I'm naive but wouldn't a split like
- deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zebra main-core
- deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zebra main-applications
be all that was needed?

With main-applications being rolling updates and main-core being stable?

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