Rolling release Fedora - fantastic idea

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On 01/30/2012 05:17 PM, Przemek Klosowski wrote:
> 
> The argument against rolling upgrades is that it's a wonderful idea
> early on, but then you run into a morass as time goes on, because of:
> 
>  - difficulty of handling wanted vs. unwanted updates, which in turn
> creates combinatorially growing number of config permutations (Gnome 3
> yes, GCC 4.7 no, KDE 3 no , kernel 3.x yes, etc.)
> 
>  - cruft resulting from rolling upgrades trying to preserve old
> customizations and 'old way of doing things', as opposed to  installing
> latest shiny stuff from scratch
> 
> In other words, you have to wait a while and think long term to truly
> evaluate a rolling upgrade. You have just started, and things are going
> swimmingly for now, but the clouds are gathering.

  To some extent yes - on the other hand, one can always re-install a
rolling release using the latest install snapshot - so in that sense a
rolling release contains a periodic release as a special case anyway ...

 gene