Modern File Hierarchy

Rahul sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Thu Sep 7 00:00:53 UTC 2006


Peter Kukums wrote:
> Just my two cents worth.
> 
> I think more time should be spent on bits that don't work not bits that
> do.
> 
> For example, the package update process. I installed Fedora Core 5 on a
> new system and I was impressed with how well it worked without much
> intervention on my part.
> 
> But yesterday I performed an update of all my installed packages and now
> I can no longer print to any of my printers (CUPS was updated). How can
> beginners possibly cope with something like this??

Seems unrelated to file hierarchy in any manner. Have you filed a bug 
report on this?


  As part of desktop
> usability they would expect what was once working to keep working!!

Thats not desktop usability. Thats general QA for the whole distribution.

  The
> update process should be more transparent. And as a beginner I can also
> see no easy way of rolling back to a previous working version either!
> 

Yum recently got a downgrade plugin. See fedora-devel list.

Rahul




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