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Linux development in the present era is very heavily driven by Red Hat's needs and desires, and I don't think they have this problem because they don't support
by makomk 5y ago
Linux development in the present era is very heavily driven by Red Hat's needs and desires, and I don't think they have this problem because they don't support upgrading from one release to the next using the package manager - you have to reboot into the installer and do a kind of reinstall in place. So they can just require that all packages only have files in the non-symlinked directories after the flag day. Debian is different - you have to use the package manager to upgrade, which means you're going to be running with a mix of new and old packages at least for a while.
- gtirloni 5y agoAre you talking about major RHEL upgrades? That's purely a support/business decision, not technical. I've been upgrading my Fedora systems between major versions with yum/dnf for as long as I can remember. It just works.
- sph 5y agoRed Hat is not only RHEL. Red Hat's Fedora supports distro upgrades and they didn't have much issues pulling it off. I was using Arch Linux when the merge happened and it was a non-event.