Refining the update queues/process [Was: Worthless updates]

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Wed Mar 3 17:03:23 UTC 2010


On 03/03/2010 04:51 PM, Jesse Keating wrote:

> For me personally the type of update I'd like to see slowed down is the
> pure enhancement update or new package updates, ones that do nothing but
> swallow up the latest upstream build or scm snapshot to add new
> features.

#1 on your personal list should be "not breaking package deps".

#2 should be removing prematurely deployed, dysfunctional packages from 
the DVD. Confronting users with incidents like ABRT's introduction into 
FC12 or in the early stages of SELinux and PulseAudio is not helpful.

Ralf


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