On Mon, 2022-11-14 at 13:08 -0500, Paul Smith wrote: > The nice thing about flatpak is it's quite simple to install an older > version (e.g., Evolution 3.44) if that's helpful to you.
Hi, it was pointed out several times that Evolution downgrades are sometimes a problem regarding the user data/settings. Downgrades of any software can suffer from this issues. Sometimes user data/settings are transformed by an update to a different format and can become incompatible for usage with older versions. IOW unless it's not verified that the user data/settings are backwards compatible or a backup of compatible formatted user data is available, it doesn't matter how easy or hard the downgrade of the software itself is. I don't know if data/settings used with 3.46 do work without issues when using 3.44. Much likely there's no issue with emails and if needed settings can be reset to defaults by the gsettings command. Likely the worst case is to redo the settings. Resume, downgrading this kind of containerized software is easier to do for bloated software, than for the same software with a huge shared dependency tree, but the container approach doesn't solve user data/settings backwards incompatibility. Flatpaks and similar approaches make some things easier for users, but other things harder and they even don't solve all existing problems related to upgrades and downgrades. Regards, Ralf _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
