Fedora 8 - more user friendly updates?

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 5/15/07, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> > On 5/15/07, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> >> Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> >> >> When you use yum, you can use this yum plugin to only install security
> >> >> updates. This works for Core Packages in FC6 and all in F7.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Isn't moving so many, apparently useful features into non default
> >> > plugins diluting the apparent effectiveness of yum?
> >>
> >> Not moving. Adding.
> >
> >
> > Thanks for the correction, but my question still stands.
>
> No. It doesn't. Adding new features as plugins cannot possibly dilute
> the effectiveness of yum. Removing features might but that depends on
> the feature. For example, earlier versions of yum had a feature that
> displays rss feeds that got moved into a separate utility.
>
> Rahul


Plugins are nice, I like them. I was referring to "non default
plugins" as in those very nice plugins that aren't in by default, and
require knowledge of their existence (generally) to get to.

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