What is the fascination with 'spins'

[dragoran]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Monday 05 February 2007 15:05, Styma, Robert E (Robert) wrote:
>   
>> Hi Jessee,
>>    I have been following a few of these threads and there is something
>> that I have not seen addressed.  My current machine, like a lot of the
>> ones out there, is a mix of spins.  I have both Gnome and KDE loaded.  
>> I also run Samba as the PDC for my house (yes the kids have to log into
>> a domain), and software development tools, and a web server, etc.
>> If I pick some spin, say the Gnome desktop spin and run upgrade mode,
>> what will happen to the KDE install and the other packages not covered
>> by that DVD?
>>
>> Will I be left with a system part way between FC6 and FC7?
>>
>> If I have to load just one spin and then add in the other RPM's manually
>> I would request that a mechanism be set up to facilitate figuring out
>> what
>> I need to load.  A straight compare of what RPM's are were on the FC6
>> machine
>> and what is on the new FC7 machine may or may not be a working deal.
>>     
>
> We haven't tackled the upgrade set just yet.  It may involve doing network 
> upgrades through anaconda (so that anaconda can work its magic) so that you 
> have access to all the packages, but we're not sure on this yet.  Given that 
> this is a problem today, if you have Extras packages installed, I don't think 
> we could do much worse (:
>
>   
and what if the there is not network/internet connection @ during the 
update ?