Op dinsdag 14 juni 2011 00:08:56 schreef David W. Hodgins: > On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 17:28:04 -0400, Renaud MICHEL <[email protected]> wrote: > > On lundi 13 juin 2011 at 23:06, Thorsten van Lil wrote : > >> A rolling release has following advantages: > >> 1. the distribution is always up to date (also hardware support) > >> 2. no re-install over and over again > > > > I don't get it why people think a re-install is necessary. > > My current computer was installed with mandriva 2007 (don't remember if > > it was .0 or .1), it is now mageia 1 and has been updated to all > > intermediary mdv releases. > > My currently running install started as Mdv 2009.1, updated via urpmi to > 2010.2, then converted to Mageia cauldron during beta 1. > > With a little over 4400 packages, the upgrade from one release to the next > takes over 8 hours, on this single core Celeron processor, so even though > it's not an actual re-install, it still feels like one. /usr alone is 13GB.
I have a similar machine, but updated through the applet, which means it only takes about 1hour and you can work in the main time and reboot when you want. i don't understand why users would be expressly wanting rolling release when you don't need to reinstall, or "upgrade" in a traditional sense at all... > One possibly annoying part about that, is that there are many rpm packages > where the only obvious change is the version. I understand that for many > of the packages, they have to be rebuilt due to perl/python/glib version > changes, but anyone who doesn't know that will see what seems like a lot > of unneeded updates. > > One con of a rolling release has been demonstrated by Cauldron over the > last few days. With the perl/gnome updates, it takes a few days for all > of the needed packages to get built. For a couple of days, running urpmi > with --auto-select wanted to remove most of gnome. I waited till the > needed packages were available, whereas a less technical user may have > ended up removing key parts of their desktop manager. > > Regards, Dave Hodgins
