Security Updates -- Are they necessary in Linux for user?

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Tim wrote:
> Tim:
>>> Related to that, you can ignore or remove things that you're not going
>>> to use.  e.g. If you're never going to use OpenOffice.org, you can forgo
>>> the updates for it, or even remove the thing entirely.
> 
> Les Mikesell:
>> The simple minded approach is to just 'yum update' once a week or so
>> and take everything it suggests.
> 
> Though, the first time you do it, you're presented with a very large
> number of updates.  Trying to do that piecemeal can be difficult, thanks
> to all the dependencies, and YUM's default configuration not to keep
> cached files.
> 
> Otherwise, it would be simpler to just keep on downloading stuff, until
> you can do the updates.
> 
Doesn't YUM keep the the downloads that it has not installed because
of dependencies, or other problems? In the past, when packages could
not be installed because of conflicting files, the packages were
still in the cache.

Mikkel
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