Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

[Rahul Sundaram]

On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 11:11 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" <johannbg at gmail.com
> wrote:Bro...

"It should be sufficient to just tell/point the installer to use new
packages while still retain the same functionality/support as it did for F17
( unless of course there is some serious fundamental design flaw in the
installer which makes him dependent on same package set he's installing )"

Umm.  It doesn't work like that.  Installers have a lot of system
dependencies and when those dependencies change in various ways, installers
have to be modified just to keep up with the changes for the exact same
feature set.

Rahul
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