Deep Freeze coming for Fedora 7 (and cvs branching coming too)

[Jeremy Katz]

On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 18:57 +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 11:14:35AM -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > On Tuesday 15 May 2007 11:00:20 Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > > Will there be a way to short-circuit the announcement and just update,
> > > like it was possible before?
> > 
> > No, as that is a very poor end user experience.  Here I've got 40 updates, 
> > without a clue as to why these updates exist and why I should use bandwidth 
> > to pull them down.  Updates without announcements / reasons is just chucking 
> > grenades over the wall.
> 
> In my opinion it really depends on the package and on the update. Sometimes 
> you want to do annoucements, some time it is just a loss of time for the 
> packager to do it and for the end-user to read it. So I think it would 
> be much more efficient if it was possible to skip it. Of course it should 
> also be easy to do a nice announcement.

>From the point of view of the person maintaining the user visible update
tool, users *really do want to know* this information.  And I get bugs
filed about the fact that Extras packages don't currently have this
information available.

Jeremy