On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 15:49 +0100, Thomas Janssen wrote: > > 2) not restricting yourself to kde* (and its dependencies) increases > the > > risk of a flaky system because you're updating a bunch of stuff you > > don't care about. It can then be hard to back out to *not* using > > updates-testing for every future update. > > Well. Not true. Whatever is in updates-testing, you should care of. > Most updates are bugfixes and come in 99.99% of the cases into updates > anyways. I mean that unless I'm prepared to do testing and reporting, I don't care about them because they'll eventually appear in updates. > And you can easily back out by disabling the updates-testing repo. "Backing out" means reversing an earlier advance, e.g. by using "yum downgrade". Disabling updates-testing won't do that. All it does is tread water until the standard repo catches up. Nothing wrong with that, but it's not "backing out". > Nothing brakes, no problem with future updates. We're not speaking of > enabling rawhide for some updates. That will give you headaches at > some point. "breaks", not "brakes", but fair enough. poc
