On 05/30/2010 09:26 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Rex Dieter wrote: > >> After doing fedora version upgrades, it's always a good idea to refresh >> the default pkg list via >> yum groupinstall kde-desktop >> (repeat process for any installed desktops) to ensure you have all the >> newest, default package set installed. > > I always follow your advice ... > so I did the above, and found it installed 100MB (70 packages). > But I don't understand why? > Why didn't "yum update" (which I run every couple of days) find them? > > "yum update" only updates installed packages. It won't install new packages unless the updated packages have new dependencies that require new packages to be installed.
