Where Fedora Went Wrong (nice conclusion)

[Anne Wilson]

On Wednesday 16 May 2007, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> >
> > Except that doing clean installs is a real pain.
>
> That's a problem that could be solved.  Not easily, but at least it
> makes an interesting problem...
>
Getting all the config files right again is what takes so much time after a 
clean install.  In many cases it would be no problem to simply copy the 
config file from a recent backup.  I wonder if some of the pain could be 
eased quite simply by pointing out in the Release Notes which packages need 
important changes to the config files?  I'm thinking, for instance, of when 
dovecot went from 0.99 to 1.0 - where the config section for authorisation 
needed changes.

I'm only thinking of significant changes like that, so I wouldn't think there 
would be too many.  The comfort that anything not listed there could probably 
get away with the old config file could save considerable time and effort.

Anne
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