On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 08:54 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 13:28 +0000, Andrew Haley wrote: > > Ralf Corsepius writes: > > > > > >From my experience (I've used Fedora with both ISDN and with DSL Lite), > > > Fedora with ISDN or modem is plain unusable, with "DSL Lite", the > > > situation is "bearable", but isn't fun (an openoffice update takes a > > > working-day). > > > > So don't do that, then. Fedora doesn't require anyone to yum update openoffice. > > That isn't a particularly helpful comment. Telling people to not update > packages is actually really bad. Frankly speaking, this was what I did back then. I postponed updating and explicitly launched update-jobs it at times, I was sure not to be interactively sitting in front of the system. > Think of security issues, etc. The > kernel itself is 16MiB or so, and that can't be a speed download on a > link like that either. Now consider having several machines with different archs on a network being interfaced to the public over a low bandwidth connection. ... The only way I could handle this situation was to selectively mirror public yum-repos and recreate local ones from them. > Anyway, there really isn't a nice solution to the problem but blatantly > telling someone "don't do that" is pretty asinine. Exactly, you've just noticed the reason for what I previously said. Also, you now know why the ability to upgrade from one version to another on-the-fly appears as a (so far missing) key-feature for Fedora to me (This only downloads those packages which are really needed - Download on demand - This is way less than what's in the repos or on CDs/DVD) Ralf -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
