Proposal: Rolling Release

[Rahul Sundaram]

Les Mikesell wrote:

> And you may need both old and new versions present while you perform the 
> operations an upgrade requires.  So generic package-magic would involve 
> being able to install the new version without removing the old so you 
> have a chance to do the interactive parts before it is too late.

Again, this is something upstream project should do. GTK and gstreamer 
for example does make this easy.

http://www106.pair.com/rhp/parallel.html

Working around this at the packaging level is always going to require 
elaborate hacks. OpenSUSE did this for shipping KDE 3 and KDE 4 in 
parallel but other distributions refused.

> Think USB external, flash or laptop form.  They are great things to have 
> around for other purposes too.

External USB's are not a answer in embedded systems. You cannot rely on 
external disk storage for base os functionality.

Rahul