On Sunday 06 October 2002 00.45, Anthony Moulen wrote:
And finally, these are beta upgrade packages.
WTF is an upgrade package?
they are to test what will happen when the final release comes out. It is important that you see how well they upgrade the existing environment.
What?
If they were simply installed next to the other packages and when finally released they broke the upgrade, you would be complaining 10 times worse.
What are you on about? All binaries/scripts/whatever in /opt/kde3 from 3.0.3 disappear, and get replaced by 3.1. There's absolutely no "upgrade" going on there. You may be confusing things with YOU's patch rpms. These are not patch rpms. The only upgrade here is to the things in $HOME/.kde and you can test that without blowing away the kde 3.0.3 installation. I did, when I installed from CVS. And so did every previous beta.
You install a Beta you know what a beta is. If you want to test without it overwriting your existing environment, relocate the RPMs.
The obvious point is this: no previous beta has overwritten the "stable" version. None at all. If they suddenly change policy, people will get rudely surprised. And for no reason whatever. //Anders