On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, Jesse Keating wrote:
> It's also a bit convenient having every release of redhat
require me
> to uninstall ximian packages. I think at this point, redhat should
> assume that a large percentage of users use ximian, and allow to
> upgrade from their packages.
A) why make that assumption? The majority of users I deal with don't
use Ximian packages.
At least there are many thousand that do, and it is common enough to have
made redhat's release notes. I would make the assumption because:
a.) XD releases are mentioned on every major linux site.
b.) I know personally quite a lot of people who use XD (not just on
Redhat albiet).
B) how would Red Hat "allow" such upgrades when they have
no control
over what packages users may be upgrading from? The problem is that
Ximian used to (still does?) replace many core packages that cause
problems when trying to upgrade from ximian packages to Red Hat
packages. One or the other would break, so it was much cleaner to just
manually remove ximian from the system prior to an upgrade.
Maybe Ximian should put more work into making their software work
cleanly on Red Hat w/out replacing core packages and causing the
headache we have now...
Well, this is true, I meant something more along the lines of "I wish
Redhat and Ximian would work together to ease upgrades". Worse is the
fact that (for example) going from RH9+XD2 to Severn is in some ways an
upgrade, and in some ways a downgrade. XD2 can't be re-installed on top
of Severn, and even after RH10 is released, it will be a while until it is
supported. I know a few people who waited to upgrade to RH9 until it was
supported by XD2, and I am somehow sure the same thing will happen to
RH10.
-- noah silva