What is the fascination with 'spins'

[Styma, Robert E (Robert)]

> 
> They are being developed over time.  
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> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureFedoraDesktop/Pa
> ckageList 
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> lists the packages we specifically ask for, and then let 
> pungi depsolve.
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> Jesse Keating
> Release Engineer: Fedora
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Hi Jessee,
   I have been following a few of these threads and there is something
that I have not seen addressed.  My current machine, like a lot of the
ones out there, is a mix of spins.  I have both Gnome and KDE loaded.  
I also run Samba as the PDC for my house (yes the kids have to log into
a domain), and software development tools, and a web server, etc.
If I pick some spin, say the Gnome desktop spin and run upgrade mode,
what will happen to the KDE install and the other packages not covered 
by that DVD?

Will I be left with a system part way between FC6 and FC7?

If I have to load just one spin and then add in the other RPM's manually
I would request that a mechanism be set up to facilitate figuring out
what
I need to load.  A straight compare of what RPM's are were on the FC6
machine
and what is on the new FC7 machine may or may not be a working deal.

Bob Styma