Linux further embarassing itself with non-working preupgrade

You know what's most horrible about Open Source community? It is that they come up with those great ideas, have little patience coding and even less testing and they say 'Screw it, we are moving on'.

preupgrade is trumped up as the proper way to upgrade to the next version of Fedora. But does it work? Google 'preupgrade root not found' or 'preupgrade intermediate version' and you will realize that preupgrade does not work for too many users.

Worst part is that after preupgrade your system might be left in ruins. It not just installs whatever update is out there for your system - it will also make lots of scripted changes all over the place.

Most users would only learn that preupgrade was buggy, non-working POS after the fact, after it screwed up their system, after they tried finding help and posted in the linux forums. Only then they would get replies telling them that preupgrade should not be relied on. Nothing to that effect at Fedora.org.

In my particular case it totally messed up mounting of the drives on demand by GVFS. The drives did mount, but they no longer appeared as sub-folders of ~/.gvfs due to preupgrade putting incorrect permissions on that folder. Recovery was difficult, undocumented and unorthodox.

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