Re: help with... F9

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



--- On Tue, 2/2/10, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 18:55 -0800,
> Patrick Bartek wrote:
> > As far as updates:  If an app or  utility or
> library works just fine,
> > no problems--they usually do from the initial
> install--why be
> > concerned over the latest update?  But I see it
> all the time.   It
> > must be some kind of complusive-obsessive disorder
> variant.   I have a
> > friend, a retired career computer admin, programmer,
> you name it, who
> > has this disorder.  It is impossible for him not
> to constantly keep
> > his system fully updated even if what is being updated
> is rarely if
> > ever needed or even used.
> 
> It is next to impossible to avoid if you install a new
> piece of
> software, though.  It'll depend on other more recent
> files, then you
> have to update those, and further, dependencies. 
> Which can be quite
> pain when installing one new thing involves hundreds of
> megs up updates.
> It can be easier to just periodically keep things up to
> date, to head
> off that sort of thing.

I was referring to unsupported versions.  I have no problems with updating, per se.  I'm just not fanatical about it.

B
-- 
users mailing list
users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To unsubscribe or change subscription options:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users
Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

[Index of Archives]     [Older Fedora Users]     [Fedora Announce]     [Fedora Package Announce]     [EPEL Announce]     [Fedora Magazine]     [Fedora News]     [Fedora Summer Coding]     [Fedora Laptop]     [Fedora Cloud]     [Fedora Advisory Board]     [Fedora Education]     [Fedora Security]     [Fedora Scitech]     [Fedora Robotics]     [Fedora Maintainers]     [Fedora Infrastructure]     [Fedora Websites]     [Anaconda Devel]     [Fedora Devel Java]     [Fedora Legacy]     [Fedora Desktop]     [Fedora Fonts]     [ATA RAID]     [Fedora Marketing]     [Fedora Management Tools]     [Fedora Mentors]     [SSH]     [Fedora Package Review]     [Fedora R Devel]     [Fedora PHP Devel]     [Kickstart]     [Fedora Music]     [Fedora Packaging]     [Centos]     [Fedora SELinux]     [Fedora Legal]     [Fedora Kernel]     [Fedora OCaml]     [Coolkey]     [Virtualization Tools]     [ET Management Tools]     [Yum Users]     [Tux]     [Yosemite News]     [Gnome Users]     [KDE Users]     [Fedora Art]     [Fedora Docs]     [Asterisk PBX]     [Fedora Sparc]     [Fedora Universal Network Connector]     [Libvirt Users]     [Fedora ARM]

  Powered by Linux