[Dovecot] Standards of expectations for software installs

[Noel Butler]

On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 10:22 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote:

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> No - I'm saying that an upgrade that does exactly the same thing as the 
> earlier version should "just work" without having to research cryptic 
> error messages you get after the new software fails to load. What I'm 
> saying is that Linux should be as easy as Windows.


A new MAJOR version release should ring bells that you need to read for
any possible problems.
This is true for other widely popular software, ie:  apache.

I will admit, certain distro vendors such as debian/RH/Fedora/Ubuntu ,
do, do much software a dis-service by their hacks and non standard
file locations, because people with problems come to us for support
expecting us to fix a mess created by someone else.
That I know annoys a lot of people trying to convert to linux from
windows and you're right, then they say bugger it and go back to
windows.
but.. everyone wants to be special I suppose :)