Rolling release model philosophy (was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID)))

[Kamil Paral]

> >> This tool is still not going to be able to do magic and there will
> >> be
> >> config
> >> things that still need to be redone. Third party repos will still
> >> be
> >> an issue.
> >
> >It's a clean installation, I don't think it needs any magic. Also
> >third-party repos are not a problem, we just ignore them and they
> >won't influence the new system. People will add them manually again
> >once in 18 months.
> 
> There is desktop config in people's home directories that may not
> work with
> updated packages as expected.

Package updates don't touch your /home. Clean install is the same as package updates in these regards.

> 
> Custom configuation done in /etc is lost.
> 
> How do they get the packages from the third party repos reinstalled?
> Fedora will probably be limited in doing this in a fully automated
> way,
> since there are legal issues.
> 

Please read my email again:
> ** Power users would have to manually transfer /etc changes, add custom repos, etc. But if you need to do that only once every 18 months, it's not so bad. Also, a lot of power users would use Fedora Rolling instead, so they would not be affected at all. Some power users can even do unsupported yum upgrades (as many of them do now), so they won't be affected by it either.

It wouldn't be done automatically, no. All this stuff would have to be setup again manually. But that's just my view.