Security Updates -- Are they necessary in Linux for user?

[Scott van Looy]

Today Mikkel L. Ellertson did spake thusly:

> Tim wrote:
>> Tim:
>>>> Related to that, you can ignore or remove things that you're not going
>>>> to use.  e.g. If you're never going to use OpenOffice.org, you can forgo
>>>> the updates for it, or even remove the thing entirely.
>>
>> Les Mikesell:
>>> The simple minded approach is to just 'yum update' once a week or so
>>> and take everything it suggests.
>>
>> Though, the first time you do it, you're presented with a very large
>> number of updates.  Trying to do that piecemeal can be difficult, thanks
>> to all the dependencies, and YUM's default configuration not to keep
>> cached files.
>>
>> Otherwise, it would be simpler to just keep on downloading stuff, until
>> you can do the updates.
>>
> Doesn't YUM keep the the downloads that it has not installed because
> of dependencies, or other problems? In the past, when packages could
> not be installed because of conflicting files, the packages were
> still in the cache.

Default is not to cache files. Change:
keepcache=0
in /etc/yum.conf

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