Why do we need FC version attached to the package name?

[Seth Vidal]

On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, Simon Andrews wrote:

>> Not really. Things like KDE config files processed by kconf_update, Firefox
>> profiles, Amarok databases etc. will have been converted to the format
>> expected by the new version, downgrading is not supported by upstream and
>> the old version may thus not work or lose some settings.
>
> Surely these aren't the kind of updates which should be applied within a 
> release cycle anyway?  A new release is the time you'd expect to get a major 
> revision of this sort.


No. Not always and that sort of thing is up to the maintainer.

>
> 2) At home I have a cap on how much I can download except for an unlimited 
> window overnight (midnight - 6am I think).  Do I now have to wait up to 
> upgrade my machines rather than doing the initial upgrade from media and then 
> picking up updates automatically the next night?

Well you should definitely install yum-presto so you can save a lot of 
bandwidth.

-sv