[wplug] Red Hat 8.0 "features"

[John Harrold]

Sometime in October James O'Kane assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| This is interesting, I do upgrades all the time and I don't recall having 
| problems like these. In the case of solitare, could your hardware be 
| flaky? Also remember, that Red Hat hasn't written most of this software, 
| they just packages it for consumption.
| 

i'm with james on this one. while in the past i have reinstalled, the
upgrades i've done of late have been fairly successful. granted i havent
done a redhat 7.3-->8.0 upgrade. the change in the major version number
would suggest that there is binary incompatabilities between the two. so it
might be a good idea to do a fresh install. on the other hand, you would
think redhat would have thought of that. 

i would also ask the question: "has the person installed any software from
source?", or something similar, if so then upgrading probably wouldn't pick
up on this. also installing custom rpms might have a similar effect. i
don't think you can hold redhat accountable for problems like this. 

if redhat offers an upgrade from 7.x to 8 it should work for the most part.
i'm really surprised there are a lot of problems. 
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