Re: Desktop upgrade strategy (was: What should be upgraded first: kernel or userland?)
On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 08:51:21PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 05:11:59PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 06:52:15PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> > > It can however also be worked around with:
> > > aptitude unmarkauto openoffice.org
> > And that should be a no-op for users who don't have OOo installed, right, so
> > this recommendation could be safely included in the release notes with no
> > danger of side-effects or user confusion?
> In order to avoid confusion ("Huh? I never installed OpenOffice!"), I
> would recommend something like this:
> If you have installed the OpenOffice.org packages at some point, then
I think it's much more important to avoid unnecessary conditionals in the
release notes if we want to avoid user confusion.
Instead, including it in the instructions with a note explaining it's a
no-op for users without OOo installed would be better.
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