/usrmove? -> about the future

[Matthew Garrett]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 08:47:50PM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote:
> Am 10.02.2012 20:05, schrieb Matthew Garrett:
> > Not guaranteed, but it works within a massively more constrained 
> > environment and so certain fundamental issues don't apply. yum 
> > distro-sync requires that all currently running applications are able to 
> > deal with their files being replaced. Preupgrade doesn't. That's a 
> > pretty obvious distinction, and it's why preupgrade is supportable in a 
> > way that yum isn't.
> 
> and why is this so?
> because the feature is introduced ina a hurry brainedead way!

I have no idea what you're talking about. The problem I mentioned above 
isn't restricted to usrmove.

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