> Woah there...I'm not asking you to change your religion there. Just > wanted to know if this was a technical reason or design philosophy. Now I > know. It's both in fact. For technical reasons enabling those options will make parts of the process of writing the package updater much harder. >From a design perspective it is just not terribly useful for the user to be allowed to potentially break their system. > The problem is with Red Hat as a company. There is no support for RH9 -> > EL3 officially from Red Hat. There is the uber backdoor anaconda command > "upgradeany" that will allow it to happen but Red Hat claims this voids > all support. Support doesn't matter to me but I'm just a bit miffed that > up until now you were expected to be able to upgrade from the Mother's day > release and now all of a sudden you're g f'd. I blame it on money making > schemes but whatever. There's a lot of complexity to upgrading from ANY release to the current one. I'm not commenting on red hat's policies. I don't work for them and it's not really an issue. but I know some stuff about what anaconda has to do and some of it is VERY hard if the base is old enough. -sv
