Yum Update

[R A Jon Hamelin]

>
> Hi folks:
> > 
> > I have installed F7 on a laptop today and went to update via terminal 
> > (su -c 'yum update'). I was shocked to see that yum was going to update 
> > every package available, not just what I had installed. I have never 
> > come across this before and wonder whether it is a bug. I use this 
> > method to update my other Fedora boxes and have never noticed this issue 
> > before. The laptop has a 17 GB hard drive and I want to conserve as much 
> > space as possible.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Jon
>   
>  I found the same thing on both desktop and laptop when dumped XP for
> f7. Luckily I have a broadband connection. One of the reasons I am so
> happy with linux is that people are working so hard, at practically no
> cost to me, on making the OS the best they can. Of course I also took
> into consideration that f8 is already downloadable, so I assumed f7 is
> in its final stages and thus the reason for so many updates. However
> after using for 3 weeks I think I have already had over 20 additional
> updates. Just more hard work being completed. So the downloads of the
> distributions are probably being updated somewhat regularly to try and
> help keep it down, mine was somewhere around 150 updates right after
> install.
>
>
>   
It turned out to be 197 updates. I'm now on my second laptop. Only 1 
workstation left running XP. I run Adobe Creative Suite on this machine. 
One day I will try it on a virtual machine.

Jon

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