On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 15:23 +0100, Emmanuel Seyman wrote:
* Josh Boyer [19/03/2007 15:00]:
>
> > Ralf Corsepius writes:
> >
> > So don't do that, then. Fedora doesn't require anyone to yum update
openoffice.
>
> That isn't a particularly helpful comment. Telling people to not update
> packages is actually really bad. 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.
Ralf isn't telling people not to update OOo, he's telling them to not do so
using yum.
No, this had never been my intention.
I only said: Updating Fedora using yum over low bandwidth connections is
hard, and IMO qualifies Fedora not to be suitable for uses without
sufficient bandwidth.
Ralf