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

Florin Andrei florin at andrei.myip.org
Fri Apr 15 05:38:24 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 23:09 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> 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.

Right, but they're separate, aren't they? (to some degree)
It's not like Firefox goes around bashing other software's heads if it
gets too crowded.

But from a theoretical p.o.v., yes, i see your point.

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Florin Andrei

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