On Fri, Sep 29, Joe Salmeri wrote:

Does this change mean that TW / Factory may be switching to using transactional-update sometime in the future ? I don't think it does but wanted to clarify.

Factory did switch to transactional-update already many years ago if you
haven't noticed, the Factory variants using it exclusively are called MicroOS, 
Aeon and Kalpa.
And for the other openSUSE variants we have the "transactional server"
role as install time option.
So if you are afraid that TW may switch to transactional update, you are
far too late, it did already years ago.

Beside that update-alternatives is not only a problem for
transactional-update, but also hermetic-usr and all kinds of image based
updates.

So getting the mis-design of update-alternatives solved is in interested
of many people.

  Thorsten

I am aware of transactional-update being used with MicroOS, Aeon, Kalpa as well as the transactional server role in TW, however, last I checked ( its been a month or 
two since I spun up a new TW installation ) the standard TW install using KDE or GNome at least does NOT use transactional updates.

So to better phrase my question, are there plans for TW KDE or GNome new installastions to be switching to the transactional-update mode ?

If YES, then will there be a migration process for older TW installations that were not using transactional-update or will a new install be required ?

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Regards,

Joe