Re: Getting people into Linux

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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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