F11 Proposal: Stabilization

[Michael DeHaan]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 16:07 -0500, Michael DeHaan wrote:
>   
>> Use case --- I have no desire to update my desktop, but I want newer 
>> virt tools, and I want security updates.
>>
>> Use case -- my friend wants newer Open Office but that's it, and doesn't 
>> want to update ImportNetworkThingy until many people say it's ok.
>>
>> How do we compare against the above already, and how might we take small 
>> actionable steps to get closer to them?
>>
>> The above use cases almost seems to imply Debian pin priorities, and 
>> that makes me afraid.
>>
>> Hard problem.
>>     
>
> Couldn't both the above be solved by 'subscribing' to those sets of
> packages via say PackageKit?  That way when PackageKit goes to look for
> updates, it only asks for updates for those particular packages.  When
> you update, if anything else is needed to satisfy newer builds of those
> packages they can be pulled in.
>
> Of course, what we'd likely see is a combo of "Give me all security
> updates" and also "Give me updates only for these sets of packages".
> The interesting question is how to design UI around the subscriptions.
>
>   

I think I like this.

In the case of "I just want a newer OpenOffice" and don't touch 
everything else, that's already covered by a yum install today -- but we 
do need something for the update case(s).

--Michael