On Friday 02 February 2001 08:33, you wrote:
> It is not an option to do a total reinstall...and if that is how Mandrake
> is supposed to work, it is going to LOSE people instead of gain them. One
> should not have to totally reinstall the distro just to upgrade one part of
> it that isn't even critical and central to its overall function.
In the 2.1 Beta 2 README the "official" procedure says to install onto a
clean 7.2. I'm not a rocket scientist and I have no idea what changes
internally from one version of KDE to another. Since I'd already updated from
2.0 to 2.0.1 to 2.1-20001229 to 2.1 Beta...I decided to follow the official
procedure and install Beta 2 over a clean 7.2. That's what I did and it
works. 2.1 Beta 2 is the most stable KDE I've ever used.
Maybe you don't need to do a clean install. Maybe only KDE, CUPS, xinitrc,
egcs, ghostscript, arts, jkd, etc. need to be updated. If you know what
you're doing, then go for it. But to blame Mandrake because your patchwork
upgrade breaks a beta version of KDE is just dumb. If you're not prepared for
problems, don't run beta software.
M.
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Michael O'Henly
TENZO Design
