On Thu, Apr 11, 2002, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote about "Re: KDE 3.0 Instelation": > 7.0 begat "7.0" respin and about 80meg of updates. 7.1 needed about the > same. At last count my 7.2 system needed almost 150 meg of updates, not > counting GCC 3, which I installed manualy as some things will compile > with it and others will not.
150 MB? I already have in the order of 500 MB in my Redhat 7.2 updates directory :( Of course, doing these updates is fully automatic for me (with good use of rsync - you might, for example, want to anonymous rsync the updates directories in iglu.org.il, or another local mirror), and Redhat usually (but not always, they botch up sometimes :( ) makes sure that these updates all apply cleanly. You can't say the same about some random RPMs you get off the net, like KDE 3 or Ximian Gnome or something like that. > Some things were not documented with the 7.2 bugs, such as the problem > with tar, which was fixed by the tar developers, but not by Red Hat (see > the linux-il archive for a description). AMD, which only worked after > a recompile. and others. I guess that if it was a really important patch. they'd release an update. Most people (and even I) can live with programs with a maximum age of 6 months without needing to upgrading them every week. This saves *a lot* of time (I know, because I used to compile nearly every free software in the world on both Sun and Alpha machines, and to took up quite a bit of time and effort to keep current). I even know people who are still using the unpatched Redhat 6.2 system, and don't bother to upgrade. I run a system with a (heavily patched for security) Redhat 5.2 (!!) system. Not everybody feels the need to upgrade to the bleeding edge all the time. Most people can wait another month to get KDE 3 from Redhat 7.3 (if that's what it will be called), for example. -- Nadav Har'El | Friday, Apr 12 2002, 30 Nisan 5762 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone: +972-53-245868, ICQ 13349191 |He who has more is not happier than he http://nadav.harel.org.il |who wants less. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
