On Monday 24 January 2005 11:37, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 11:23:46 -0500, Gene C. <czar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I believe that the installer (anaconda) should support installation ONLY > > from Core. > > Installation only? or upgrades as well? > Cleally the fresh install case isnt the problem... its the Core upgrade > case. Doing a 2 stage install is trivial... a 2 stage upgrade on the other > hand is somewhat complex, since anconda will have to leave every 3rd party > or extras package in place with broken deps until first boot can be run in > your scheme. You have to delibrately leave your system in an inconsistent > state when you reboot into it and pray that the > reboot works even though the system is in an inconsistent state. Oops, you are correct that I was not considering an upgrade. If we need to handle upgrades where packages have been moved from Core to Extras but not removed entirely, then a Fedora distribution will need to always be Core+Extras. Is this what we want? Is this the intended direction by Fedora developers? I do not have answers myself and the intended direction by the folks who "control what Fedora is" is not clear to me. -- Gene
