[Mageia-dev] Release cycles proposals, and discussion

Tue Jun 14 08:48:34 CEST 2011

Thorsten van Lil <tvl83 at gmx.de> schrieb am 14.06.2011
+> Am Montag, 13. Juni 2011, 23:28:04 schrieb Renaud MICHEL:
+> > I don't get it why people think a re-install is necessary.
+> > My current computer was installed with mandriva 2007 (don't
+> > remember if it was .0 or .1), it is now mageia 1 and has been
+> > updated to all intermediary mdv releases.
+> 
+> An Upgrade is nearly the same, than reinstalling. The difference is
+> only, that you can use your system in the mean time and you are
+> not forced to install the missing packages.
+And you keep all your precious settings and databases and webroots 
+and...
+And of couse the software you did unstall outside of the package 
+management (proprietary stuff,...).
+
+And a bit to the argument of having to install loads of software at 
+the same time: When some basic libraries are upgraded, loads of 
+software have to be rebuilt against them, so with the rolling aproach 
+you will just get that massive upgrades more often, so where is the 
+bonus in it?
+If people want to have their software more up to date, use backports, 
+if they want to have it even more up to date, use cauldron, but don't 
+cry if anything breaks.
+
+Oliver
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