Josh Boyer writes:
On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 13:28 +0000, Andrew Haley wrote:
> Ralf Corsepius writes:
>
> > >From my experience (I've used Fedora with both ISDN and with
> > DSL Lite), Fedora with ISDN or modem is plain unusable, with
> > "DSL Lite", the situation is "bearable", but isn't fun
(an
> > openoffice update takes a working-day).
>
> So don't do that, then. Fedora doesn't require anyone to yum
> update openoffice.
That isn't a particularly helpful comment.
Look at it this way: if you really need openoffice updated, then
update it. But saying that Fedora *requires* broadband because only
then can you have continuous updates is nonsense. What about everyone
else in the world? *Of course* it's good to have updates, and
everybody who can get them should, but is it really so important that
without them one would rather not even boot Fedora/whatever?
Telling people to not update packages is actually really bad.
We're talking about people who claim they can't get updates.
Think of security issues, etc. The kernel itself is 16MiB or so,
and that can't be a speed download on a link like that either.
Anyway, there really isn't a nice solution to the problem but
blatantly telling someone "don't do that" is pretty asinine.
That's an opinion you get to have.
Andrew.