Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3378 mails)

["James P. Bennett" <jbennett@xxxxxxx>]

For universities, this is a totally disqualifying problem:

   the experience of  a lot of people is that the upgrade feature hardly
   works.... clean install is what works ... that is a major problem

   Phil

Every user has customized her or his installation.  Lots of rpm's
for specialized applications install  to /usr and not /usr/local.
There is simply no way efficiently in such an environment to wipe
clean everyone's  installation, install 8.0, then reconfigure things
so they worked as before.  A viable update option is essential.  In 8.1?

jim bennett