James Antill <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> > [...] >> > ...but they have almost no options if they are happy to stay with >> > the software that they have. >> >> Doesn't "just not running random/unrestricted yum update" exactly >> encode that option? > > No, for two reasons: > > 1. The user is often informed, from various sources, that they should > apply updates. We even want users to do that. OK, but then we're not talking about the person who's happy to stay with the software they have, but about a more typical person who is not too risk-averse and is willing to consider unsolicited updates. Those are different dudes. > Of course the assumption with that advise is that there aren't that > many updates, and they will mainly be severe bug fixes and security > fixes ... Fedora updates may be classified, but perhaps not granularly enough. An update can include a mixture of security fixes, serious bug fixes, minor bug fixes, new features, and of course risks such as changed configuration files, new known bugs. Perhaps a new update could be scored by the maintainer on all these scales, so that the client update interface can easily filter/sort to the preferred top few. > and they will have gone through a lot of testing. Well, this being Fedora, "a lot of testing" is always a matter of faith. - FChE -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
