On 12/02/2009 06:01 PM, Casey Dahlin wrote:
On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 11:06:22AM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> However, other than 'browsing manually for packages',
I'm not really
> sure what problem you are trying to solve by getting rid of the
> updates repository. It would seem like this has quite a bit of cost
> for relatively little to no real gain?
>
This is true.
It is not true.
* It shifts "costs" from "users" to "vendor"
and from "mirrors" to "master".
* It helps users who are using networked installs to spare bandwidth
(avoids downloading obsolete packages from "Everything"/"Fedora").
Admitted, for most users, it would change almost nothing.
Ralf