drkonqi and outdated software

Neal Gompa ngompa13 at gmail.com
Thu Nov 20 10:01:02 GMT 2025


On Thu, Nov 20, 2025 at 3:20 AM Sune Vuorela <nospam at vuorela.dk> wrote:
>
> On 2025-11-19, Justin Zobel <justin at 1707.io> wrote:
> > Care to elaborate on why? It would be the truth.
>
> We are telling someone else's users that we don't support them.
> While it is true, it is not us that is the primary place for their
> support. It is the distribution. And we shouldn't actively be telling
> them anything.
>
> And after all, it is just an extra knob for distributions to need to
> patch out (and get wrong) - the only thing we gain from it is more
> distributions patching our software more. We don't want that.
>

Also, brutally, it creates unnecessary controversy. We don't need a
XScreenSaver-style beef from distributions.


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真実はいつも一つ!/ Always, there's only one truth!


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