humble suggestion to Fedora developers

Ranjan Maitra maitra.mbox.ignored at inbox.com
Thu Jan 24 02:04:19 UTC 2013


On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 23:07:53 -0200 Itamar Reis Peixoto
<itamar at ispbrasil.com.br> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 11:00 PM, Sam Varshavchik <mrsam at courier-mta.com> wrote:
> > Reindl Harald writes:
> >
> >> now the damage is done - F18 is a release with a highly dangerous
> >> or partly unuseable installer depending on the usecase/workload
> >> and nobody on this planet can change this for F18
> >
> >
> > In theory, changes to fedup should be fairly open-ended, it could be
> > rewritten completely, and pushed out in F17.
> >
> > In theory, everything broken in fedup can be fixed, and pushed out. And, new
> > installs can be done by installing F17 first, then fedup, in a pinch.
> >
> > In practice, who knows…
> >
> 
> the f18 installer is good, except the partitioning section.

Agreed. It is not clear that pushing an updated is any help: you need
to install F18 to be able to update, in which case you don't need an
update.....

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