Actually I would regard the way this has been implemented as a bug. Surely it would have been better to list the required packages but make it unable to install them, or install them properly? The reason is that if you depend on software manager to show you that there is a security fix available for the kernel, you will miss it. Not everyone subscribes to the security list (which still seems a bit intermittant) or regularly checks the buglists on the Mandrake website. When ( and thats not an if!) the next major kernel security upgrade comes out, how many will miss it due to this oversight?
Also one option I miss with this style of software manager is to download but not install packages. I find that I am not using the manager much at all now, falling back on ftp to get the packages so I can control the install. I kept getting too many cryptic "fail" messages, crc errors etc on packages that work fine when I ftp from the same source. BillK > > include a cc to my email as well as the list's. > > This is not a bug. This is there for a reason. Nothing related to > the kernel is installed via rpmdrake... too many users have in the > past decided it was a good idea to upgrade their kernel in rpmdrake
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