Fedora 8 - more user friendly updates?

[Rahul Sundaram]

Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 01:20 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Valent Turkovic wrote:
>>> One thing I found really exceptional was Ubuntu's granual update. You
>>> can choose what types of updates you wan't the system to inform you of
>>> - only security updates, system updates (desktop and related programs)
>>> or all updates (all installed packages).
>>>
>>> Is there any plan for Fedora 8 to be more user friendly in this
>>> regard? I love Fedora Desktop more that any other linux desktop and
>>> just would like to see it adopt the great ideas that others have
>>> already implemented and then suprise them with some new features that
>>> other destops don't have.
>> Fedora repositories already the necessary metadata in the repository 
>> that classified updates in security, bug fixes or enhancements. This is 
>> extensible. Pup used to display them till it ran into some hiccups and 
>> was diabled temporarily.
> 
> Everything should already be displayed; the only thing that was ever
> disabled was clicking on links within advisories

That was because it launched the web browser as root. Right? Was that 
ever fixed or did you have any ideas?

Rahul