On Friday 05 January 2007 03:42, Michael Wiktowy wrote: > On 1/4/07, Anne Wilson <cannewilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > And there I want to chip in. One big bugbear is when things that were > > working get broken by updates. I think that one small change would be > > immensely helpful here. > > > > Either people don't do updates at all - in which case vulnerabilities > > mount - or they get the lot, and things occasionally get broken. Bear in > > mind that this class of user usually doesn't need the absolute latest and > > greatest - just a reasonably up-to-date version of his software. Surely > > it would be possible to make a simple way to take security fix updates > > only? That way you could automate the updates for normal use, and they > > could get other updates with the aid of someone more knowledgeable if > > necessary. > > > > Maybe the possibility already exists. If it is, then it needs > > publicising. > > This is a good idea but I think it is largely the way updates already > occur already within a particular version of Fedora ... I don't think so. I subscribe to fedora-package-announce, and only a very small proportion of the updates are marked as security updates. Anne
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