Re: [Cooker] Reasons FOR Mandrake...

[Tim]

> 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?

With prior version of Mandrake there have always been upgrades available. I
think in this case there were just too many changes in the OS to be able to
officially support a KDE upgrade. Any operating system will be hard pressed
to keep each new version compatible with older ones, and I believe that
Mandrake has done all it can to support this. There's always the option of
obtaining the freely available source code and compiling it for your
system....