On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, René van Bevern wrote: > Not by packages or their scripts and not without user > interaction. It's dangerous.
Often it IS done without interaction, with the expected screwups and massive loss of data. Openoffice deleted a ton of user files with their super-braindead upgrade script [oo's, I am *NOT* talking about any maintainer scripts of the oo packages!]. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh