End of Saga WHY I WANT TO STOP USING FEDORA!!!

Mark Haney mhaney at ercbroadband.org
Tue Feb 10 14:10:04 UTC 2009


Charles Crayne wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 19:04:16 -0800 (PST)
> Leslie Satenstein <lsatenstein at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> With internet access the way it is, why not just
>> do rolling updates?
> 
> Sounds good, until the day when yum identifies 473 dependencies for the
> package you want to install.
> 

One of those other buggers I don't like about Fedora.  A ridiculous
number of dependencies that (to me, mind you) seem superfluous.   But,
again, what's it like when a new release comes out?  It's 500+MB of
updates.  With rolling updates it's possible to scale that down, I think.


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Mark Haney
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