On 01/30/2012 05:17 PM, Przemek Klosowski wrote: > > The argument against rolling upgrades is that it's a wonderful idea > early on, but then you run into a morass as time goes on, because of: > > - difficulty of handling wanted vs. unwanted updates, which in turn > creates combinatorially growing number of config permutations (Gnome 3 > yes, GCC 4.7 no, KDE 3 no , kernel 3.x yes, etc.) > > - cruft resulting from rolling upgrades trying to preserve old > customizations and 'old way of doing things', as opposed to installing > latest shiny stuff from scratch > > In other words, you have to wait a while and think long term to truly > evaluate a rolling upgrade. You have just started, and things are going > swimmingly for now, but the clouds are gathering. To some extent yes - on the other hand, one can always re-install a rolling release using the latest install snapshot - so in that sense a rolling release contains a periodic release as a special case anyway ... gene -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
