On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 19:31:51 +0530,
Rahul Sundaram <metherid(a)gmail.com> wrote:
That is a gross mischaracterization of people are expecting in this
discussion. For one, the fallback mode provides pretty much the same
experience as before the upgrade and doesn't degrade it. I don't care
I think you want the future tense there. The fallback mode doesn't work
currently if you don't have gnome-shell installed.
about every single MB on my hard drive however randomly adding
artificial dependencies to packages cannot be the solution for providing
the upgrade experience you want to provide. If you want to tackle that
problem, it is a much bigger one (defaults change, new packages get
added, some cleanup might be needed etc) and needs to be handled
differently.
I believe there was a claim that proper obsoletes and provides could
potentially handle upgrades from older Fedora releases while not using
hard dependencies. I did not see a detailed proposal on how this would
be done though.