Op woensdag 06 oktober 2010 16:55:48 schreef Tux99: > Well, I don't think we will ever come to an agreement especially as it > seems that former mdv devs here seem to be very reluctant to change > anything about the release cycle. > > Personally as a future Mageia packager I will try to concentrate on making > backports (apart from maintaining some specific packages) so in a way I > will be helping to make Mageia in practice a sort of 'light' rolling > distro as suggested by a few people in this thread. > > But I just want to say that based on my experience spending time since many > years on several Linux forums (not specifically Mandriva ones), I can say > for sure that the majority of 'normal' (non-geeks) users FEAR AND EVEN > HATE distro upgrades, they just want to be able to install new versions of > apps, not risky complete distro upgrades. > > So a one year release cycle with lots of app backports (and maybe a kernel > backport mid-cycle if there is important new hardware support) is IMHO the > best release cycle for 'normal' users.
you are correct, people don't like to upgrade live; they fear it. however, i've been upgrading (first by just changing urpmi sources and updating everything) and later by clicking the upgrade_applet. i must say that there used to be some smaller issues which can be solved by rebooting (which you should do after upgrades anyway, because of kernels); but lately, i didn't see any troubles with clicking upgrade_applet at all. (and this for 3years or so...)
