Christopher Blizzard wrote:
Are people complaining? Are we actually breaking stuff in the
process?
Since you particularly asked, I will say that the volume of updates is a
problem for me. (Normally I don't believe in complaining about volunteer
efforts, so I would have kept quiet.)
You asked if you were breaking stuff in the process. This morning I was
hit by this problem, which appears to result from the PAM update:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=244534
Although actually downgrading the PAM package is easy, it did take a
certain amount of time. I had to work out what was going on, check that
downgrading wouldn't leave my system vulnerable, and so on.
I also eventually gave up trying to use a Wacom tablet with Fedora. Most
times a kernel update came out, the tablet would fail, always in a
slightly different way. It could generally be made to work again, but
eventually I felt it was taking too much time, and went back to a normal
PS/2 mouse.
Are you upset with the amount of bandwith we're eating or just
based on
principal?
Actually the raw bandwidth isn't the important thing for me. The
frustration comes from updates that don't work properly, forcing me to
spend time debugging a system that was previously working.
The perfect solution, IMHO, would be two separate update streams. There
would be a "recommended updates" stream for security patches and fixes
for major bugs. Then there would be an "optional updates" stream for
minor bugs, new upstream versions, that sort of thing. Then I could
install all the recommended updates, but I could leave the optional
updates unless I particularly needed the improved functionality.
It might be that the "recommended updates" are almost identical to the
RHEL fixes, since they would have the same goal.
Pete