ATTN SELF-STYLED LIST POLICE (was RE: Mr. Day)

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Tue Dec 7 10:57:43 UTC 2004


Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 10:28 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
> 
>>When I used to be on the wrong end of a slow, expensive link, I wouldn't have 
>>dreamed of firing up "yum update".
> 
> Why? The opposite is true: Updating/upgrading with yum/apt is by far
> means less expensive than downloading the iso's, so it actually helps
> you spare bandwidth, even on slow links.

Who said anything about downloading ISOs? I meant downloading individual RPM 
packages. For example, I'd probably have downloaded the relatively small and 
important udev updates as soon as they came out, but the openoffice.org 
updates would wait until the weekend, if at all.

Paul.




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