On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 09:56 -0500, David Hollis wrote: > On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 07:39 -0500, seth vidal wrote: > > > > > and it would give users very little awareness that something didn't get > > patched. > > > > giving them a false sense of security. > > > > And also leave them potentially vulnerable to a larger number of issues. > In some cases, some patching is better than no patching. If httpd > doesn't get updated for a hot zero-day exploit because of a dependency > issue with gimp and my system gets exploited, that seems like a bad > thing. > and this is why the update system is writing out update data. So, we can differentiate b/t update for feature and update for security, or different grades of a security update. then we can work more intelligently on: yum update security-critical-only (as an example) and have it do those only. -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
