Proposed F13 feature: drop separate updates repository

Colin Walters walters at verbum.org
Wed Dec 2 17:44:31 UTC 2009


On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Matthew Booth <mbooth at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> That's not a bug, it's a feature! Seriously, wasn't it a specific F10 or F11
> feature that anaconda allowed the user to specify that updates be installed
> at installation time? Certainly I used to have Debianites crow at me that my
> installation was vulnerable until I updated it. Not only that, but I had to
> download updated packages twice. These days I always install with updates. I
> find the installation argument dubious at best.

This could be equivalently fixed by have the desktop check on initial
login if there are any updates available before letting you launch say
the web browser.  However - we have bigger issues related to updates
to fix.




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