The updates firehose

Matej Cepl mcepl at redhat.com
Sun Jun 10 12:19:23 UTC 2007


On 2007-06-09, 21:39 GMT, Christopher Aillon wrote:
>> Seriously.  We're drowning our users in updates.  Are all of 
>> them really necessary?  I feel like we've got this culture of 
>> update whatever/whenever coming from Extras where it was just 
>> fire and forget.  While that might be fun for the maintainer, 
>> is it fun for the user?  Is it fun for the user with a slow 
>> connection?
>
> I agree that we should attempt to limit somewhat.  But people 
> always get upset at me for not pushing things out.  We need to 
> determine a policy here before you ask people to limit 
> themselves.

And the some idiots make 96 packages to get updated uselessly. Oh 
well, I got those 66+MB of updates today as well.

Matej




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