should i expect "yum update" to work on a fresh fc4t2 install?

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Thu Apr 14 03:09:34 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 17:53 -0700, Florin Andrei wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 16:58 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> 
> > I've found that "install everything" is an extraordinarily bad idea if
> > you want to have a continually working system.
> 
> I'm amazed by how few people are aware of this. Although, at least IMO,
> it's counterintuitive, no?
> 

not really, you add enough stuff you increase complexity. Complexity
tends to increase the number of things that can go wrong.

-sv





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