Why separate GA and updates directories?

[Frank Murphy]

On 12/07/09 08:46, Matthew Booth wrote:
> Does anybody know the reason that Fedora separates GA and updates on its
> repositories? In case the question's not clear, I mean this:
> 
> GA:
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/11/Everything/i386/os/
> 

As released.
Usually, known to work well together

> 
> Updates:
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/11/i386/
>
These update to any of the packages above, if problems happen,
it allows a user to downgrade a package(s) from "As Released"

Open to correction.

Regards,

Frank