F8 -> F9 horror

[Anne Wilson]

On Thursday 29 May 2008 20:07:32 Rex Dieter wrote:
> scm in seattle wrote:
> > I have been using F8 for a while now and simply put it was the only
> > distro that supported my laptop (fairly) well.
> >
> > Today I accepted what appeared to be 'typical' updates. The size of the
> > update concerned me slightly (500Mb) but turned to horror when it
> > finished and I rebooted.
> >
> > My useful KDE3 system has been replaced by KDE4!
>
> Oops, wait you say you're still on F8?
> OK, that *is* a problem.  See, there is no kde4 desktop provided for F8. 
> We definitely would *not* do that.
>
> My guess is that you inadvertantly enabled rawhide/development repo in your
> yum config.  ??  what does
> $ yum repolist
> say?
>
His subject says 'F8 -> F9' so presumably he did an upgrade without reading 
the release notes.

Anne
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