FC6 updates broken deps?

David Hollis dhollis at davehollis.com
Thu Feb 22 14:56:09 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 07:39 -0500, seth vidal wrote:

> 
> and it would give users very little awareness that something didn't get
> patched.
> 
> giving them a false sense of security.
> 

And also leave them potentially vulnerable to a larger number of issues.
In some cases, some patching is better than no patching.  If httpd
doesn't get updated for a hot zero-day exploit because of a dependency
issue with gimp and my system gets exploited, that seems like a bad
thing.

-- 
David Hollis <dhollis at davehollis.com>




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