On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 23:31, Nicholas Wourms wrote:
Robert Collins wrote:
On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 23:22, Nicholas Wourms wrote:
It does, I think Robert's having a wee bit of memory loss. He better
look into some parity memory :-D.
An upgrade is != to an uninstall and install. Setup treats upgrades as
atomic actions per package.
Then why is it that when I upgrade, it always says it is removing all
the files from each previous packages?
Because that is part of the upgrade process. The upgrade is currently
implemented as an uninstall+install pair. The important point is that it
occurs for a single package at a time.
Well that may be the way it should be, but the reality of the situation
is this: