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Re: Potato to Woody dist-upgrade problems



Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
[...]
> While I'm sympathetic to the whole attitude that upgrading should
> require someone with half a clue, I'll note that Red Hat *only*
> require half a clue, and its upgrade process (although it requires a
> reboot), is remarkably smooth.  The big question (for which I don't
> know the answer) is whether the Debian developer community wants to
> strive to be as easy to install as Red Hat, in the long run.

My RedHat-expierence ends with 6.2, but upgrading experiences always
left me with lots of packages I did not want, and had to manually
deinstall, eg. GNOME. I'd rather be asked some questions than get a
bloated system.
             cu andreas
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