Re: RHN notification icon

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On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 18:14, M.Hockings wrote:

> >On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 12:23, Thomas DuVally wrote:
> >  
> >
> >  
> >
> >>I set mine to 30.  I know that under the actual red-hat network it can't
> >>be set below 120. It would default to 240 if it was, but since up2date
> >>is checking against yum, I'm hoping that is no longer the case.
> >>    
> >>
> I would be curious to know what advantage that you think you are gaining 
> by checking very frequently?  Do you really need to be updating your 
> system that often or is it a test system that you don't use for anything 
> else?
> 

'cause I'm a bit obsessive and use any excuse not to do real work :)


> Personally I always view _any_ change to a _working_ system to be a risk 
> in that it may not work after.  Checking for updates more than once a 
> day is (to me) an extravagance
> 

In truth I'd agree, but the newness for Fedora has yet to wear off for
me, so I'm being a bit geeky about it.

> That said, I think it would be a convenience to be able to tag some 
> packages as auto-download (not auto-install though) for cases when one 
> has specific interest in updates to them.  The earlier comment about 
> (maybe another thread?) about having some bittorrent kind of capability 
> integrated with the Red Hat update tool would also be slick.
> 
> Mike
> 
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Thomas J. DuVally
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