[linux-audio-user] FC2->Fc3->Fc4->Fc5->FC6->FC*: it's crazy!

[david]

Brad Fuller wrote:
> Forest Bond wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 05:30:11PM -0800, Brad Fuller wrote:
>>   
>>> every time there is a new Fedora Core, I usually get around to moving to
>>> the next version. However, for me, it's a bit of a pain to do because
>>> you really have to wipe the disc and start all over.. ."upgrading"
>>> Fedora doesn't really work well. At least for me it doesn't.
>>>
>>> Don't you find this a bit irritating? I do. It's not hard, it just seems
>>> unnecessary.
>>>     
>> I don't know why people tolerate this sort of thing.  Debian and Ubuntu have
>> _always_ upgraded well for me.  These are projects that recognize that one of
>> the most important (if not _the_ most important) responsibilty of a distribution
>> is dependency management, including versioned dependencies through upgrades.
>>
>> I recently started maintaining a RHEL server at work, and up2date is one of the
>> crudest tools I've ever seen.  It just barely does anything right at all.
>>
>> I guess I've just been spoiled by apt-get, aptitude, synaptic, update-manager,
>> et. al... (And the package maintainers for the above-mentioned projects --
>> package managers need good data to do their jobs well).
>>   
> Upgrading applications is easy as pie on Fedora, as long as you get the
> right repos. I use Smart Manager and it's very nice, once you get it setup.
> 
> My concern is not applications, but the distro itself.

apt-get, Synaptic, etc all handle distro updates, too. Even kernels. 
I've updated kernels a couple of times using Synaptic.

I guess you could say that Debian, in a sense, really doesn't have the 
RH/Fedora idea of "upgrades."

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