Claude Jones: > I use the moment's glance at what an update is going to do for > self-education; in the Smart GUI, you can click on various > options to get details about packages - there are typically up to a > thousand or so packages on a typical system, and there are many whose > purpose/function I don't know - spending a few moments a week doing > this, looking at the details of two or three programs that are being > updated, over years and years, has taught me a lot about the system, > and provided me with countless leads for further investigation... I tend to do the same. There's nearly always something that you haven't seen before, and some of them do make you wonder what on Earth they're for. I tend to sit there doing a rpm -qi in another terminal window to see what they are. If it's not an update, then I'll do it afterwards. -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
