On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Bill C Riemers wrote:
Don't kid yourself. People will take cameras back to the store because
I don't. The first version of car xyz bla is not the same as the last version that comes out before a new model is introduced. That's why there's the recommendation (for everything, from shoes to cars) to buy models that are to be replaced by a new one, instead of buying the new one.
.... According to YaST there are about 2000 packages in SuSE 6.1. Of the few hundred I stalled, 241 changed. Which lets say, none of the ones I didn't ....
T. Kukuk has explained this.
Now, here is a puzzle. How do I even know what the 200 or so packages I need to download and install onto my work computer? Clearly if they are important enough for the SuSE 6.1 distribution to be modified, then they are important enough for me to want to download. But I definitely
That's absolutely wrong. Why would you want to upgrade something that works for you? Excuse me guys, but I think that april fools joke (slashdot? don't remember) about the upgrade-desease was no joke after all. If there's a newer version, why not use it for a new master CD if we have to make one anyway and it doesn't brake anything. That doesn't mean everyone who's got the old version has to upgrade.
don't want to install 5 CD's worth of software. And only 20 or so of the update RPM's are in the update directory. So, how do I know what to download? I definitely don't want to spend 4 or 5 hours trying to compare version numbers, so I can write a set of ZIP disks to bring to work.
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