billg said: >> This has been discussed many, many, many, many, many, many times here. >> Please search the archives. > > I know. But the mirrors are still slow. > > My point is this: Fedora would be a better product if the confusion about > up2date and yum and source lists was eliminated. Feodra would be a better product if it has no bugs that required updates. Just saying that doesn't help anything. > Users should be offered > a choice of updating installed software or adding new software from > official repositories. And what part of that doesn't up2date do? > Unless you're an admin, there should never be a > need to even know source lists exist. You don't. > Something is wrong when an average > user asks a question about updating and is referred to a tutorial on > editing mirror lists. That's why up2date has code to pick a random mirror. > Microsoft doesn't make users do this; Who cares? Microsoft doesn't offer a full featured web server, does that mean we should rip out httpd? If your main arguement is "This isn't how Microsoft would do things" you have already lost. > neither > should RedHat. Last time I checked, this was a Fedora list, not a Red Hat list. -- William Hooper
