On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 11:44, Chris Jones wrote: > > It's also not > > obvious that needed compatibility libraries would be > > omitted from a normal install. > > What is a normal install ? One that runs the programs you had from the last release. > What I would expect, is that exactly which packages get installed during > a "normal" (clean?) installation would depend on exactly which applications > the user asked for. Have you run any other operating systems before? Some of them have maintained backwards compatibility for decades. It's not impossible and not too much to expect for one release back. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx