Life on the bleeding edge

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 11:05:34AM -0400, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> Some are better at this than others. Mandriva is notorious for not
> having easy upgrade procedures, making a re-install less pain than an
> upgrade. I sure hope they've fixed that.

I was never impressed my mandrake/mandriva.

> The dependency facilities of modem package managers should make this
> easy. Ultimately there should be a single rpm or deb pseudo-package that
> includes no files of its own, just sufficient dependency requirements
> that having it installed means you're at (or beyond) a certain release
> level.

Or you just upgrade everything to being current for the release.  After
all you don't need to install everything, and hence there can't be a
package that depends on everything being installed at a specific or
higher version.  I guess you could make it conflict with all older
versions of every package though.

> There are useful reasons for making /tmp or /var separate partitions
> regardless of upgrade

Certainly, but having seperate partitions for a whole bunch of things
usualyl causes more trouble than it is worth with a modern distribution.

> I think the Gentoo community might beg to differ.

That doesn't mean they are right and I am wrong. :)

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