Hi Thomas On Thursday 16 February 2006 19:40, Thomas Hertweck wrote:
I have always been a bit confused by this terminology in YaST - it's called "YOU = YaST Online Update", but also "System Update". I have learned a long time ago from a wise and clever teacher that one should distinguish between an update[1] and an upgrade[2]. So maybe it might help to avoid confusion if the item currently called "System Update" could be renamed to "System Upgrade". Just a simple idea, but maybe others didn't have such wise and clever teachers and therefore don't know about the difference... ;-)
I agree you you, the wording is slightly troublesome. We can probably sort it out easily enough. I'd like to think that it could be translatable (sp?) to other languages to indicate that the online update provides 'point' fixes to individual packages, rather than the wholesale approach of a system update. 'System Upgrade' is better than 'System Update'. Carries more weight.
Cheers, Th.
Cheers Pete
[1] update = installing a bug fix, security fix, etc.; for SuSE, it usually means installing a new RPM package with the same version number but a later build number (release). [2] upgrade = installing a completely new version of a software, i.e. the RPM package has a new major/minor version number.
ACK