On Thursday 04 January 2007 20:01, linuxmaillists@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Thursday 04 January 2007 08:16, Anne Wilson 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. > > > > Anne > > IIRCC Mandrake did things this way. I don't know if > Mandriva still does. Certainly it was an option in the gui - I don't know about the new one. I never used the CLI urpmi, so I can't answer for that. Anne
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