On Monday 29 April 2002 14:00, James P. Bennett wrote:
From: Anders Johansson
It could do that, but under the LSB it doesn't have to, and you shouldn't rely on such functionality.
Anders
Good point: it doesn't have to. (And I don't rely upon it ;) But I fear that whichever distribution can achieve painless upgrades first will blow the others away. In that contest, the enormous variety of applications which SuSE offers is actually a potential liability.
jim ========================
Jim, As a computer person I would think if you reread your last posted paragraph, you would say to yourself this is really never going to be possible! Upgrades are all painless, except for the problems the users adds to the upgrade. Nobody can possibly adjust for all the variables of what someone has done to their system since installing a fresh setup, just not possible. Same way for hardware, it is very nearly impossible to allow for all the diffrences in hardware today! If everybody followed the LSB to the letter than that would make it easier for a LSB compliant distro to upgrade, but that still can't take into account what the users have done beyond that. I see a lot of complaints on this list blaming SuSE or some other distro for different things and from what I can tell most can be attributed to the "short between the keyboard and chair" ! ;o) Patrick -- --- KMail v1.4 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.0 --- Registered Linux User #225206 Magic Page Products -- Amiga-SuSE-PC Sales & Service URL: http://home.sprintmail.com/~tracerb