Il 05/02/2013 16:58, Reindl Harald ha scritto: >>> >> 2) Modern Windows updates are safer than RPM, speaking broadly > jokingly? > > show me a upgrade of production machines from F9 to F17 > without end in a inconsistent system on windows - you > can't, i have been there > > windows is missing anything like transaction-checks > tp prevent one "package" is overwriting files of > a different one, has no package-deps over the > complete system Windows actually tracks files, registry keys, extension<->program associations and a bunch of other things individually. Of course Windows doesn't control (almost) all packages like Fedora does, and many vendors misuse that. And the binary compatibility of DLLs is much harder than with Linux sonames. Still, updates coming from Microsoft are in general pretty solid. Paolo -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
