I recently upgraded to Mandrake 6.5 (6.1) and am a tad irritated at some
things...
In Cooker, it would be really appreciated if some of the users' settings
were not:
- arbitrarily overwritten (or re-written):
/root/.emacs
/root/.bashrc
/etc/bashrc
/etc/lilo.conf
others?
I'd like to keep some of *my* [system-wide] settings.
- blindly appended to:
/etc/conf.modules
mine had no ^J on the last line, so appending actually altered
part of my PPP settings. Also ended up with duplicate entries
including multiple eth entries
- altered:
NFS no longer automatically starts up
X no longer auto starts (on laptop; not used on desktop)
eth0 and SCSI no longer co-exist
had to remove SCSI and change eth0 IRQ (still not sure why)
Probably other issues I've forgotten...
The point is that "install" can do what it likes; BUT...
"upgrade" should be more respectful of a user's current settings.
Otherwise, I'm still favoring Mandrake which calls itself "the best
Linux distribution for beginners"... I'm not a beginner; but I'd be
quite upset if I was and had just upgraded, only to find previously
working stuff now broken/altered... I'm irritated at the lost time; but
most stuff is back to *my* preferences... for now...?
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Pierre Fortin, Retired
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