Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

[Ales Kozumplik]

On 06/09/2014 11:13 PM, Stephen Morris wrote:
>      I have the akmod.nvidia and kmod.nvidia proprietary drivers
> installed and when they are updated, the package manager I use tells me
> about the packages that have to be uninstalled in order to do the update
> (this package manager seems to uninstall to old kmod package and
> installs the new one rather than update as such), but when I look at
> what dnf would do if I used that, it just tells me it is going to update
> the kmod driver and mentions nothing about the peripheral packages that
> will be removed.
>      Is this normal functionality or is it a Beta testing issue?

Stephen,

what would you say a difference between 'updating' and 'removing and 
insatlling new version' is? What is the benefit of the latter in your 
specific case?

Ales