James Antill <james(a)fedoraproject.org> writes:
> > [...]
> > ...but they have almost no options if they are happy to stay with
> > the software that they have.
>
> Doesn't "just not running random/unrestricted yum update" exactly
> encode that option?
No, for two reasons:
1. The user is often informed, from various sources, that they should
apply updates. We even want users to do that.
OK, but then we're not talking about the person who's happy to stay
with the software they have, but about a more typical person who is
not too risk-averse and is willing to consider unsolicited updates.
Those are different dudes.
Of course the assumption with that advise is that there aren't
that
many updates, and they will mainly be severe bug fixes and security
fixes ...
Fedora updates may be classified, but perhaps not granularly enough.
An update can include a mixture of security fixes, serious bug fixes,
minor bug fixes, new features, and of course risks such as changed
configuration files, new known bugs. Perhaps a new update could be
scored by the maintainer on all these scales, so that the client
update interface can easily filter/sort to the preferred top few.
and they will have gone through a lot of testing.
Well, this being Fedora, "a lot of testing" is always a matter of
faith.
- FChE