kde4.4 in updates-testing

[Thomas Janssen]

2010/2/17 Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan at gmail.com>:
> On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 08:24 +0100, Sven Lankes wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 06:13:18PM -0500, Neal Becker wrote:
>>
>> >> Maybe you want: yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update kde* ??
>>
>> > Yes, is this the suggested way to test kde4.4 from updates-testing?
>>
>> No - installing single packages or package sets from updates-testing has
>> the potential to break things. updates-testing is all or nothing - so:
>>
>> yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update
>
> This doesn't look right to me, because
>
> 2) not restricting yourself to kde* (and its dependencies) increases the
> risk of a flaky system because you're updating a bunch of stuff you
> don't care about. It can then be hard to back out to *not* using
> updates-testing for every future update.

Well. Not true. Whatever is in updates-testing, you should care of.
Most updates are bugfixes and come in 99.99% of the cases into updates
anyways.
And you can easily back out by disabling the updates-testing repo.
Nothing brakes, no problem with future updates. We're not speaking of
enabling rawhide for some updates. That will give you headaches at
some point.

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LG Thomas

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