Initial Proposal for doing Enterprise Extras

[David Lutterkort]

On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 11:31 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Rex Dieter (rdieter at math.unl.edu) said: 
> > Offhand, I couldn't disagree more.  You mean you'd rather live with the bugs
> > that those 100+ package updates fix?  No thanks.  If you don't want the
> > churn, then don't update your el4 boxen.
> 
> So, you're requiring the user to explicitly browse the updates for
> security vs. non-security fixes, for example?

With the updateinfo.xml metadata that core is generating, this could be
addressed with a simple addition to the update/repo tracking tools on
the user's side. That assumes, of course, that that data is generated
for extras ;)

David