On 01/30/2012 05:17 PM, Przemek Klosowski wrote:
The argument against rolling upgrades is that it's a wonderful idea
early on, but then you run into a morass as time goes on, because of:
- difficulty of handling wanted vs. unwanted updates, which in turn
creates combinatorially growing number of config permutations (Gnome 3
yes, GCC 4.7 no, KDE 3 no , kernel 3.x yes, etc.)
- cruft resulting from rolling upgrades trying to preserve old
customizations and 'old way of doing things', as opposed to installing
latest shiny stuff from scratch
In other words, you have to wait a while and think long term to truly
evaluate a rolling upgrade. You have just started, and things are going
swimmingly for now, but the clouds are gathering.
To some extent yes - on the other hand, one can always re-install a
rolling release using the latest install snapshot - so in that sense a
rolling release contains a periodic release as a special case anyway ...
gene