An installer assumes that you have a removable media from which you can
boot, which is not the case for most commercial devices on the market, as
they are boot-locked.
On Mar 31, 2013 11:24 PM, "stanley garvey" <[email protected]>
wrote:

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> On Mar 31, 2013 23:03 "Ottavio Caruso" 
> <[email protected]><[email protected]>wrote:
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> On the other hand if you release a new rootfs say every month, all that a
> smart user has to do is umount /home and untar the new rootfs over the old
> one and some post install cleanup. Alternatively they can be educated to
> update properly.
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> <snip>
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> 1) That would be a lot of work and ..
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> 2) You assume the user is smart, Slackware is K.I.S.S. for a reason.
>
> 3) Education is not an exact science.
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> 4) Installers provide a uniform experience.
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