On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 15:08 -0500, Gordon Keehn wrote: > Jack Howarth wrote: > > <Snip> > > I assume the promised ability to do an archive and install ala > > MacOS X hasn't made it into FC5. Is that correct? Linux is never > > going to make significant headway on the desktop until we get > > rid of the need to wipe and reinstall every time a system release > > occurs. > > Jack > > > Why should that matter? It's SOP for the other graphical operating > system. The difference is that you pay $$$ for the privilege of > reinstalling it (and all your applications) from scratch. > Cheers, > Gordon Keehn ---- am I missing something? I thought an 'archive and install' on MacOS X was pretty much the same thing as wiping out everything but the /home partition and thus, you had to re-install applications all over again. As for the notion of wipe and re-install every time a new release... - It's likely going to work for an anaconda upgrade. - It's likely going to work for a yum type of upgrade but someone's gonna be blazing the trail on this and come up with resolution of the issues this is going to cause. - There's a relationship between maintaining the status quo to achieve easier upgrades and allowing for considerable changes which probably complicate if not deter upgrades but have a more favorable impact on the overall logic of the packaging itself and the philosphy of dealing with that relationship is what defines a distribution, not necessarily Linux as a whole, thus the argument about making significant headway on the desktop is not necessarily a Fedora/Red Hat issue. One fact is never going to change though...a 'clean' install is going to be entirely more predictable than an upgraded installation. Craig
