From release notes for FC5T3 (web)

[Rahul Sundaram]

Les Mikesell wrote:

>On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 10:42, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
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>>>Which means that it will be found and fixed, which is pretty
>>>much the point of delivering it in fedora in the first place.
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>>Right and when its fixed you have the burden of keeping yourself 
>>updated.
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>That's why you have yum.
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Additional bandwidth and maintenance cost for the both the end user and 
the project with no benefits.

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>>I wouldnt ever want that additional work for programs that I 
>>dont even use which is why I advocate always keeping track of the 
>>packages that you install and install software only when you will use it 
>>instead of dealing with random bloat through a blind installation of 
>>everything just because it happened to be supplied in Fedora Core.
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>So how do you ever decide to run a new program?
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Lazy browsing using Pirut, Yumex or yum itself can provide all the 
required details. yum info <foo> for example is a good start.


-- 
Rahul