Using Fedup

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sat, 2015-06-20 at 03:03 +0930, Tim wrote:
> Tim:
> > > Can someone explain what product=nonproduct actually means?  I've
> > > looked at <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedUp>, but it makes as
> > > much sense as sale=nosale, to me.
> 
> 
> Temlakos:
> > Beginning with F21, Fedora spun itself into three main flavors: 
> > workstation, server, and cloud. Three different flavors with 
> > different
> > needs. The "nonproduct" flavor lets you upgrade from F20 to F21
> > without trying to conform to a specific "product." Here's the 
> > thing:
> > product workstation is GNOME and nothing but GNOME. That's all very
> > well if you like GNOME or are migrating from the Mac. But we KDE 
> > users
> > must use the nonproduct flavor to keep everything the way we have 
> > it. 
> 
> Ah, okay, I get it.  Poor choice of keywords, though.  Would have 
> been
> clearer if they'd used something more sensible.

IIRC several suggestions were made at the time, none of which were
accepted. See for example the (long) thread at 
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/2014-December/013991.html

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