On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 02:10:33 -0700, Scott wrote: > >It's usually a bad idea to upgrade Fedora Core packages with external > >updates. Better keep FC3's k3b package, so you benefit from patches, > >integration work and security/bug-fix updates. > > > > > Yeah well if Fedora would get it's act together all the "unofficial" > repositories would have nothing to do..... Wrong. If you look closely at what some 3rd party repositories do (when they don't extend the available set of packages with clean add-ons), you find that they move you closer to the bleeding edge by doing version upgrades of Core packages. Sometimes because additional software has stricter version requirements. Sometimes because once a package has been included in a repository, it is updated frequently with the latest upstream release to keep it fresh'n'bleeding. Only a very small number of Fedora Core users, however, like numerous version upgrades (and hence Fedora Core Updates to download) after a release of the distribution has been declared final. Even more updates as seen with FC3 would make the distribution a moving target and decrease stability. That's what can be done in the Fedora Core Development channel. > Next FC install will be without KDE and I'll do the full KDE install > from the kde-redhat.org packages. :-) Well, choice can be good. But it doesn't change a thing as such an installation moves you farther away from the testing and development done on Fedora Core. > >You should be able to use: -dev=/dev/cdwriter No comment on this one? Even something like -dev=/dev/hdc should work. > In any event both k3B and Nautilus are mysteriously burning again. So to > heck with CD record. I'll let the GUIs do the work... :-) Uhm... :) -- Fedora Core release 3 (Heidelberg) - Linux 2.6.9-1.681_FC3 loadavg: 0.05 0.19 0.10
