yum plugin suggestion or yum change?

Thomas M Steenholdt tmus at tmus.dk
Mon Dec 5 21:04:17 UTC 2005


Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> 
>> Are you telling me that you are going to spend an equal amount of time
>> following up on the errors from partial updates than you do from an
>> update that fails to happen at all?
> 
> The average user will spend the same time ie no time at all.
> In one case he'll have all updates except problem ones applied.
> In another he'll have *no* updates applied as soon as one package
> (redhat-artwork...) blocks.
> 
> Guess which system will be rooted first.
> 
> You severely underestimate human natural laziness if you think playing
> dumb will motivate them to investigate problems for you.
> 

This is exactly the point!

/Thomas




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