F11 Proposal: Stabilization

[Seth Vidal]

On Tue, 18 Nov 2008, Jesse Keating wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 17:12 -0500, Seth Vidal wrote:
>>
>> so it would be like an alias that says:
>>
>> yum update really means yum update openoffice\* somestuff\*  \
>>       my_favorite_pkg\*
>
> Pretty much.  I don't know how this would look/work at the yum level
> where we can already just do what you said 'yum update foo\* bar\*', the
> graphical level could just be some UI around this.
>
> Essentially instead of subscribing to the firehose that is "update
> everything possible from these repos" that is the default, to "only
> consider these package sets as update targets, pull in whatever else you
> need".

Right - in some of these cases the last bit "pull in whatever else you 
need" is the same as 'twist the firehose nozzle all the way as far as it 
will go, hold tight!'

>
> I personally don't see this as very useful, but then again I'm on a
> decent internet connection, I have a fairly sparse install as it is, and



> I want the firehose.

That's a Quote of the Day.

-sv