On 06/19/2015 02:35 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Sat, 2015-06-20 at 03:03 +0930, Tim wrote:
Tim:
Can someone explain what product=nonproduct actually means? I've
looked at <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedUp>, but it makes as
much sense as sale=nosale, to me.
Temlakos:
Beginning with F21, Fedora spun itself into three main flavors:
workstation, server, and cloud. Three different flavors with
different
needs. The "nonproduct" flavor lets you upgrade from F20 to F21
without trying to conform to a specific "product." Here's the
thing:
product workstation is GNOME and nothing but GNOME. That's all very
well if you like GNOME or are migrating from the Mac. But we KDE
users
must use the nonproduct flavor to keep everything the way we have
it.
Ah, okay, I get it. Poor choice of keywords, though. Would have
been
clearer if they'd used something more sensible.
IIRC several suggestions were made at the time, none of which were
accepted. See for example the (long) thread at
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/2014-December/013991.html
poc
I recall that thread well. I started it. Of course what happened, I
never would have predicted: the "product" flag existed with the F20->F21
upgrade but not with the F21->F22 upgrade. I accomplished the last
upgrade with a couple of issues, one of which I solved by removing, then
re-installing, a family of programs, the other of which required me to
run a legacy systemtray program.
Temlakos
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