an idea about upgrades

[M. Fioretti]

On 2015-05-12 21:50, Pete Travis wrote:
> On May 12, 2015 11:54 AM, "jd1008" <jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >
>  >
>  > It would be a great idea if Fedora would provide
>  > a way to downgrade to the immediately previous release
>  > (from which the upgrade was performed), if the user
>  > decides (for some reason) to return to the previous
>  > release. This would completely obviate the need to
>  > do a backup, and restore - especially for a 1TB or
>  > more drives (I have a 4TB drive, for example).
>  >
>  > Cheers,
>  > JD
>  >
>  > --
> 
> Any time you find yourself using phrases like "obviate the need for
> backup" you should take a step back and rethink the situation.
> The only thing that truly makes backups superfluous is exclusively
> disposable data.

Pete beat me to this. There may be other valid reasons to have something
like this, but "completely obviate the need to do a backup" is...
terrible. What if the "way to downgrade" has a bug that wipes out
your data? Come on!

Marco


> --Pete

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