On Friday 05 January 2007 03:42, Michael Wiktowy wrote:
On 1/4/07, Anne Wilson <cannewilson(a)tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> And there I want to chip in. One big bugbear is when things that were
> working get broken by updates. I think that one small change would be
> immensely helpful here.
>
> Either people don't do updates at all - in which case vulnerabilities
> mount - or they get the lot, and things occasionally get broken. Bear in
> mind that this class of user usually doesn't need the absolute latest and
> greatest - just a reasonably up-to-date version of his software. Surely
> it would be possible to make a simple way to take security fix updates
> only? That way you could automate the updates for normal use, and they
> could get other updates with the aid of someone more knowledgeable if
> necessary.
>
> Maybe the possibility already exists. If it is, then it needs
> publicising.
This is a good idea but I think it is largely the way updates already
occur already within a particular version of Fedora ...
I don't think so. I subscribe to fedora-package-announce, and only a very
small proportion of the updates are marked as security updates.
Anne