On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 09:23 -0500, Gustavo Seabra wrote: > On Apr 8, 2005 8:01 AM, Arthur Pemberton <dalive@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >Actually, all you have to do is to add the kde-redhat repo to your yum > > >repos and then a simple 'yum update' should do it. > > > > > > > > > > > I've always been curious as to what happens when if I yum KDE from the > > kde-redhat repos, what happens when it hits the fedora core repos? > > AFAIK, yum checks all (configured) repos, and chooses the latest > packages from whatever repo they are. In this case, 99.9% of the time > the kde-redhat will have more up-to-date packages than any other (for > KDE apckages, of course), so yum will updtae all to the newer > versions. > > I actually suggest anyone who likes KDE to configure the kde-redhat > repo and update the packages right after installing FC, to make sure > the KDE is up-to-date. ... and I would suggest anybody suggesting this to seriously ask yourselves why you really want and need to do this. "More recent" doesn't necessarily mean "better" nor "less bugs". Without actual reason/cause, hanging on to packages newer than current FC is basically be sense-free. Ralf
