> the problem in this case, is that the package should not
> have been updated. It would / should be the same as whats
> in the 5.3 tree. We prolly need to add that to the QA process.

I know that this is CentOS' policy -- to ship obsolete packages on the install 
media, just to match 100% the upstream install media, so to match their 
possible bugs, but not newer installation bugs that won't match upstream bugs 
-- *but* this LiveCD is *not* matching anything upstream, and therefore it 
should have had updated packages! (Of course, that's my opinion, not yours.)

The only way to install from a LiveCD is netinstall, so it doesn't matter what 
is on the CD -- except for the kernel and base system, but not the X 
applications.

Otherwise, used as a rescue CD or just as a normal LiveCD, I don't see what 
would be the harm of using the official updates. 

It looks like CentOS has not defined yet a solid policy wrt the LiveCD.

You could have taken some ideas from the ScientificLinux 
LiveCDs/LiveDVD/miniLiveCD. Unless you consider them a "rival", or unless you 
hate Urs Beyerle. For instance, they've added to the LiveCDs even packages not 
in their regular ScientificLinux distro, just to make them more useful as 
rescue tools.

I don't say you should have copied them, but at least to take a look at what 
other clones are doing.


> your email client is broken.

It is not an e-mail client. It's Yahoo Mail Classic, the web interface. So it's 
more of a platform. Broken or not, *your* e-mail client should accept this kind 
of breakage. An e-mail client that only supports properly-formatted mail is 
like a car that can only runs on perfect roads.


Regards,
R-C



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