I had trouble upgrading from kde 2.0 to kde 2.1 (on Mandrake 7.2)
(possibly because I'm pretty much a newbie).
Still, I was disappointed when one of the responses I got from the
cooker list was that the binary RPMs to upgrade Mandrake 7.2 to kde 2.1
are unsupported. (I since learned about expert and should have asked
for help there, but have not.)
It is also disappointing that I did not see any mention of this intent
not to support the upgrade to kde 2.1 on the web pages. (To be honest,
I have not looked that hard, but it was not obvious when I went to
download the rpms.)
What is Mandrake's policy on package upgrades? Is it the policy to sell
/ distribute a given distribution (7.2) and the only supported upgrade
path is the next revision of the distribution (8.0)? What is the policy
of other distributions?
Randy Kramer
Vadim Plessky wrote:
> If you look at different KDE lists (-general, -user) - a lot of people
> complain on missing RPM packages for RH 7.0, many people have problems with
> upgrading to KDE 2.1/2.1.1 on SuSE and Caldera, but for Mandrake process is
> (almost) seamless.
> But, in any case, it looks like SuSE is second best (after Mandrake) for KDE
> users.
