Worthless updates

[Jaroslav Reznik]

On Wednesday 03 March 2010 15:55:18 Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Thomas Janssen <thomasj at fedoraproject.org> said:
> > If you want RHEL, use it.
> 
> People keep saying this, as if the opposite of "updates every day" is
> "release every 3 years".  Those are two extremes, and there is a lot of
> space in between.

So why we can't use it as our advantage and fill this gap? 

> > > On my mirror, updates/12 is approaching the size of releases/12/Fedora
> > > (which includes CD and DVD ISOs!), and that is in under 4 months.
> > > Â That is an insane amount of churn. Â Users do complain about it,
> > > when they install from a release DVD a few months after release and
> > > then spend hours downloading updates.
> > 
> > And they *have* to update everything because?
> 
> Because they are users, not developers, and they don't have any way to
> know what they should or shouldn't update.  There are security and major
> bug fixes as well as hardware support updates in there that most users
> need, but they don't have the time nor inclination (and that shouldn't
> be required) to try to sort out what they need and what is optional.

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