Les Mikesell wrote:
On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 10:42, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Which means that it will be found and fixed, which is pretty
much the point of delivering it in fedora in the first place.
Right and when its fixed you have the burden of keeping yourself
updated.
That's why you have yum.
Additional bandwidth and maintenance cost for the both the end user and
the project with no benefits.
I wouldnt ever want that additional work for programs that I
dont even use which is why I advocate always keeping track of the
packages that you install and install software only when you will use it
instead of dealing with random bloat through a blind installation of
everything just because it happened to be supplied in Fedora Core.
So how do you ever decide to run a new program?
Lazy browsing using Pirut, Yumex or yum itself can provide all the
required details. yum info <foo> for example is a good start.
--
Rahul
