Upgrade to 3.0

[P. Fleury]

Tom Achtenberg wrote:

>There are over 100 packages, there has to be a better way to upgrade.
>
Well, that's the usual trade-off: you want an easy well-prepared way to 
do it, wait for the ditributor to put the RPMs into their upgrade kits 
(redcarpet, up2date, etc). Then, it's one single action.

If you want access earlier, find the RPMs and do the upgrade "by-hand". 
But then, (maybe I overlook the tool) rpm only reports about the missing 
packages, and you have to fetch them by hand. Then again, this might 
break some other dependencies, so you'll have to upgrade other things 
you did not plan, etc. On RedHat, as they build their RPMs for the next 
version (named RawHide until publicly announced), it might easily become 
a headache.
And if you do not want to break your system, never use '--force', just 
try to understand the error message :-)

There is always the source distribution, very fresh and on the 
bleeding-edge, but you have to compile it and install it yourself. Which 
I use until the official RPMs are out, it's less of a headache and does 
not break my system. Even including the 16 hours of compilation...

And also, there are over 100 packages in the way RedHat has packaged it, 
as they seem to have a package per application. The original KDE 
distribution has about 12 packages with many applications in each.

As time is money, even in the free-software world convenience has a cost :-)

>


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