Tim: >> Going down the Windows route of having to individually update each >> application from disparate sources, or each application doing their >> own check for updates (usually when you start them up, and just >> want to use them without wasting any time), is something I do not >> want to go back to. Joe Zeff: > Absolutely! And, the best way to discourage this is by simply not > using any packages that don't come in your distro's packaging style, > in this case as an rpm. For me, at least, if it's not an rpm it > doesn't get installed. The only non-RPM application I've installed outside of Fedora's RPMs, is trying MuseScore on CentOS (which is being a pain). I already used it as a RPM on Fedora, but there was no RPM for CentOS. I've installed Google apps using yum (GoogleChrome, GoogleEarth), and while they are external, they slot into yum, and so they update in the usual manner. The other advantage of using our repos is, hopefully, they are vetted (better than some other website hosting apps). I have more faith (perhaps misguided) about the safety of applications from the Fedora repo, and they can be removed if they turn out to be bad. Externally hosted malicious software can remain available out of anyone else's control. And if you're concerned about licensing, patents, and other kinds of encumbrances, the things in the Fedora repo are supposedly free from them. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1062.18.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Mar 17 23:49:17 UTC 2020 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
