On Sa Juni 9 2007, Jesse Keating wrote:
coming from Extras where it was just fire and forget. While that
might be
fun for the maintainer, is it fun for the user? Is it fun for the user
with a slow connection?
A slow connection is never fun ;-). But seriously, nobody is forced to update
and thanks to bodhi and iirc the yum-security plugin[1] it is even possible
to install only security updates. Also I guess there are many updates from
Extras Packages, that are released now because of the Freeze, so the amount
of updates will be less the next weeks. And the user in me likes up to date
software very much. And to make it more fun for users with a slow connection,
yum-presto will help a lot more. But maybe there should be also delta-xml
files for the repository metadata, because it takes very long to download
these, too, with a slow connection.
Regards,
Till
[1] But I don't know, whether or not it is already in Fedora 7