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+ <B>Maarten Vanraes</B>
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+ <I>Tue Jun 14 01:02:20 CEST 2011</I>
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+<PRE>Op dinsdag 14 juni 2011 00:08:56 schreef David W. Hodgins:
+&gt;<i> On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 17:28:04 -0400, Renaud MICHEL
+</I>&lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">r.h.michel+mageia at gmail.com</A>&gt; wrote:
+&gt;<i> &gt; On lundi 13 juin 2011 at 23:06, Thorsten van Lil wrote :
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt; A rolling release has following advantages:
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt; 1. the distribution is always up to date (also hardware support)
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt; 2. no re-install over and over again
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt;
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; I don't get it why people think a re-install is necessary.
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; My current computer was installed with mandriva 2007 (don't remember if
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; it was .0 or .1), it is now mageia 1 and has been updated to all
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; intermediary mdv releases.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> My currently running install started as Mdv 2009.1, updated via urpmi to
+</I>&gt;<i> 2010.2, then converted to Mageia cauldron during beta 1.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> With a little over 4400 packages, the upgrade from one release to the next
+</I>&gt;<i> takes over 8 hours, on this single core Celeron processor, so even though
+</I>&gt;<i> it's not an actual re-install, it still feels like one. /usr alone is 13GB.
+</I>
+I have a similar machine, but updated through the applet, which means it only
+takes about 1hour and you can work in the main time and reboot when you want.
+i don't understand why users would be expressly wanting rolling release when
+you don't need to reinstall, or &quot;upgrade&quot; in a traditional sense at all...
+
+&gt;<i> One possibly annoying part about that, is that there are many rpm packages
+</I>&gt;<i> where the only obvious change is the version. I understand that for many
+</I>&gt;<i> of the packages, they have to be rebuilt due to perl/python/glib version
+</I>&gt;<i> changes, but anyone who doesn't know that will see what seems like a lot
+</I>&gt;<i> of unneeded updates.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> One con of a rolling release has been demonstrated by Cauldron over the
+</I>&gt;<i> last few days. With the perl/gnome updates, it takes a few days for all
+</I>&gt;<i> of the needed packages to get built. For a couple of days, running urpmi
+</I>&gt;<i> with --auto-select wanted to remove most of gnome. I waited till the
+</I>&gt;<i> needed packages were available, whereas a less technical user may have
+</I>&gt;<i> ended up removing key parts of their desktop manager.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> Regards, Dave Hodgins
+</I></PRE>
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