On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 20:44 -0700, David G. Miller wrote: > > > Works well for user apps but I lived through the evolution of ipfwadm -> > ipchains -> iptables. Need to be careful with system stuff. It would > be nice to see core functionality supported for upgrades even if every > oddball app isn't. One of the arguments against supporting upgrades is, > "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." That is, once a release supports a > platform, why change. As with my laptop example, there are good reasons > to upgrade from an OS release that only marginally supports a hardware > platform to one that fully supports it. Let's hope somebody at > Fedora/RH listens. All the more reason to use the old timey /usr/local system upgrades won't touch it. Maybe we need to adjust our tinfoil and go retro, the old timers had methodologies that may need revisiting. Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net ================================================
