Core + Exrtas 2

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Mon Nov 20 15:09:03 UTC 2006


On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 04:03:45PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Why, what is there to loose? I agree with you on major upgrades of
> existing packages, but adding a new package to the repo, say a new game
> for example, will not hurt existing users in anyway, even if they do a
> daily yum update it will change nothing for them, except an ever so
> slightly larger metadata download.

It encourages people to move to new releases to get new stuff. And of course
skilled users who want the package on an older release can always rebuild
it.

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