The updates firehose

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hans de Goede wrote:

> 
> More to the point, the last couple of releases extras updates and even 
> extras rolling release model have been causing not all that many upgrade 
> issues / pains. Yes there are things to improve, like not allowing 
> updates which will result in broken dep chains. But overall extras 
> didn't do all that bad. Most of time there is an update which causes all 
> kinda troubles its a former core update and not a former extras update.

Setting aside the fact that I didn't claim that core packages weren't 
doing any better, core and extras packages weren't on the same footing 
for end users before. None of the extras packages were being installed 
by default or available in the media that limits its impact significantly.


Rahul