How to keep up to date users with distributions way past EOL (Was Re: Biting the bullet?)

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On Tue, 12 May 2015 13:20:15 +0930 Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, 2015-05-11 at 14:39 -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> > why not at EOL, simply make the updates use fedup or equivalent move
> > to the next Fedora. THis can not be that difficult to set up. 
> 
> That would really have to be with the user's consent.  In some cases, an
> upgrade would render the user's computer inoperative (e.g. a newer
> release requiring more RAM than they have), or otherwise useless (such
> as they used software that isn't a part of the next release, or it won't
> work on it).

Agreed: but aren't updates are always with the user's consent, unless explicitly enabled with the -y option? For instance on yum or dnf:
we get:

.....
Total download size: 465 M
Is this ok [y/d/N]: 

Btw, perhaps this thread should be called something else, other than "Biting the bullet" that is not obvious to what the discussion on Fedora is.

Ranjan

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