Thufir <hawat.thufir <at> gmail.com> writes:
The re-install part is or is not related to yum and tight
integration?
It's simply wrong. No reinstalls are needed, the installer can do upgrades or
you can even just upgrade with yum or apt-rpm (not recommended, but that
doesn't mean "impossible").
The fact that you have to upgrade to a new distribution version at all as
opposed to getting updated to the next version progressively is a decision
which has nothing to do with yum/rpm nor with tight integration. It's perfectly
possible to do rolling releases with rpm. For example, Rawhide works that way.
It isn't recommended for everyday use though (just like Gentoo ~x86 or ~x86_64
installs).
Kevin Kofler