status of up2date and rhn-applet

[Bill Nottingham]

Jeremy Katz (katzj at redhat.com) said: 
> > 3. Repository Handling from UI (i liked the up2date behaviour to
> > selectively enable and disable repos)
> 
> I'm not against this (the glade file actually has the button to bring up
> such a dialog, it's just not currently enabled), but I'm mostly curious
> what the use case is for it.  Why would you not want to get the
> available updates for all configured repositories?  I can see wanting to
> configure what repositories you use for getting software when installing
> new stuff, but what's the use case for doing it while updating?

Where I see something like this being useful is when repositories
aren't in sync yet - for example, you just installed FC5, and
your favorite repo of add-on software isn't built for FC5 yet.

Ergo, you want to temporarily disable that repo.

Bill