too many deamons by default - F7 test 2 live cd

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Mon Mar 19 15:00:36 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 15:23 +0100, Emmanuel Seyman wrote:
> * Josh Boyer [19/03/2007 15:00]:
> >
> > > Ralf Corsepius writes:
> > > 
> > > So don't do that, then.  Fedora doesn't require anyone to yum update openoffice.
> > 
> > That isn't a particularly helpful comment.  Telling people to not update
> > packages is actually really bad.  Think of security issues, etc.  The
> > kernel itself is 16MiB or so, and that can't be a speed download on a
> > link like that either.
> 
> Ralf isn't telling people not to update OOo, he's telling them to not do so
> using yum.
No, this had never been my intention.

I only said: Updating Fedora using yum over low bandwidth connections is
hard, and IMO qualifies Fedora not to be suitable for uses without
sufficient bandwidth.

Ralf





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