Fedora 8 - more user friendly updates?

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Tue May 15 23:54:59 UTC 2007


Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> On 5/15/07, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>> Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>> >> When you use yum, you can use this yum plugin to only install security
>> >> updates. This works for Core Packages in FC6 and all in F7.
>> >
>> >
>> > Isn't moving so many, apparently useful features into non default
>> > plugins diluting the apparent effectiveness of yum?
>>
>> Not moving. Adding.
> 
> 
> Thanks for the correction, but my question still stands.

No. It doesn't. Adding new features as plugins cannot possibly dilute 
the effectiveness of yum. Removing features might but that depends on 
the feature. For example, earlier versions of yum had a feature that 
displays rss feeds that got moved into a separate utility.

Rahul




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