No more releases!

[Christopher Chan]

On Thursday, November 25, 2010 09:54 AM, Jason Taylor wrote:
> 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?
>

Yeah something like that. The only problem being what libraries them 
applications will be depending on. I don't know how they are going to 
carve things up but there might be a need for a 'zebra 
main-non-core-libs' and maybe some dependency hacking.