2010/2/26 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com>:
Till Maas (opensource(a)till.name) said:
> I just have another idea: Add the karma value to the repository
> metadata and write a yum plugin to only install packages with a certain
> amount of karma. I just checked that stable packages may still receive
> karma, so then everyone can pre-select packages based on the karma. And
> people for whom the current system works good enough, can disable it.
> And security updates could still be installed using the yum-security
> plugin.
Given the interdependencies between updates, I'm not sure that's really
practical. What happens when (theoretically) new thunderbird is +3
but the new xulrunner it depends on is -3?
Use both, karma and package selection not for individual packages, but
for groups of packages.
- Thomas