Fedora 8 - more user friendly updates?

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Tue May 15 20:02:13 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 01:20 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Valent Turkovic wrote:
> > One thing I found really exceptional was Ubuntu's granual update. You
> > can choose what types of updates you wan't the system to inform you of
> > - only security updates, system updates (desktop and related programs)
> > or all updates (all installed packages).
> > 
> > Is there any plan for Fedora 8 to be more user friendly in this
> > regard? I love Fedora Desktop more that any other linux desktop and
> > just would like to see it adopt the great ideas that others have
> > already implemented and then suprise them with some new features that
> > other destops don't have.
> 
> Fedora repositories already the necessary metadata in the repository 
> that classified updates in security, bug fixes or enhancements. This is 
> extensible. Pup used to display them till it ran into some hiccups and 
> was diabled temporarily.

Everything should already be displayed; the only thing that was ever
disabled was clicking on links within advisories

Jeremy




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