status of up2date and rhn-applet

[Jeremy Katz]

On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 14:52 +0000, Willem Riede wrote:
> On 11/26/2005 12:39:07 AM, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > One thing that's fundamentally different with pup is that we're trying
> > to get away from the package being (necessarily) the point of
> > granularity.  The hope is that we can actually get the update
> > information available via the yum metadata so that we can instead
> > provide more useful update information such as --
> >   "New version of apache httpd daemon to fix security vulnerability foo"
> > and then have all of the packages which are a part of that advisory
> > grouped together rather than requiring you to know that you need all of
> > httpd, httpd-devel and mod_ssl as a bunch.  Since we don't have that
> > metadata currently available (and never will for the development tree
> > and probably also some other repositories), the fallback is to grouping
> > packages by source RPM.
> 
> That would be very cool. But dependancies already tend to bring in those  
> bunches together, don't they?

Yes, which is why it's somewhat ludicrous that you select them
individually :-)

Why should I care that I'm getting both the i386 and x86_64 version of a
new package.  Or the base package and it's -devel component.  They're
just parts of the whole. 

Jeremy