WHY I WANT TO STOP USING FEDORA!!!

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Sun Feb 8 23:35:59 UTC 2009


On Sun, 2009-02-08 at 16:44 -0500, Mike Chalmers wrote:
> I didn't really want to start a RANT thread, I thought of typing up a
> well written long email, but as someone said above, I should have
> counted to 1,000! :-)
> 
> I know that I don't know how the setup of an OS works. Frankly, I
> thought it would it would be easier for the developers of Fedora to
> provide upgrades for the individual packages when they came out, even
> if they had to change things in the OS. Then you wouldn't have to have
> a huge install to upgrade from, lets say, KDE 4.1 -> KDE 4.2.
> 
> I was frustrated, initially,  because I would have liked to go ahead
> and get KDE 4.2 without having to go through a hard process, just a
> simple upgrade.

Why do you think you need to reinstall to get from 4.1 to 4.2? This is
nonsense. You can upgrade *right now* from the kde-redhat repo (or from
updates-testing), or wait a few days and get it from the standard Fedora
one.

poc




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