[sles-beta] php disappeared in beta6?

[Joe Doupnik]

Lars,
     We all understand that SUSE is trying to offer improved patch 
services. That is very good. Better engineering seems needed though.
     We do not agree with the compulsive patch now approach. We 
certainly do not agree with the removal approach and have yet to see a 
credible reason for the removals.
     There is no "must" in the patching business. Prudent managers pick 
and choose both content and timing.

     I have a mental picture of today's shopper behaviour: when a Sale! 
sign appears there arises a compulsive desire to Buy Now! Similarly in 
the software world with version chasing.
     Thanks,
     Joe D.

On 20/05/2014 12:12, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
> On 2014-05-20T11:57:30, Joe Doupnik <jrd at netlab1.net> wrote:
>
>>      Thanks for chiming in Kai. Your comments simply reinforce what I
>> speculated about. Removal has nothing, nada, to do with offering more, as
>> anyone can see at first glance. It has everything to do with the people who
>> want customers to use the "more" facility. Thus the attempts at gloss and
>> justification continue.
> Joe, I'm extremely sorry you feel this way, but this is simply not true.
>
> We've heard you that our assumption that every server must have *some*
> way of deploying updates to it at install and/or runtime in a
> not-too-troublesome way was too strong and will consider what we can do
> to make it easier to package/bundle those modules somehow, I'm sure.
>
> (Assuming that some party wants to merely gloss over and/or justify
> their process/engineering decisions is a double-edged sword.)
>
>
> Regards,
>      Lars
>