On Mon, 13 Mar 2006, houghi wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 01:00:53PM -0500, Paul J. Gans wrote: > > One of the things I love about linux (and SuSE) is that I > > can update on my own. There is no problem with this *except* > > that you then have to check the home site of the program every > > so often and look for bug fixes and security updates. > > > > To have a system just the way you want it, a little work is > > needed. But not too much. > > It is one of the (small) disadvatages. When I add something with YAST from > Packman or SUSE, it also installs software that won't be updated with YOU. > What I do is see what packages I can use from SUSE itself and downgrade > those again to the ones from SUSE, so they will be updated in case of a > security update. > > My personal choice is that I rather have a program that has automagic > security updates then a program with feature X. This only if I do not need > feature X to get the program to do what I want it to do. I agree. But sometimes... > > It would be nice if there would be a way to have YOU look for (security) > updates of those other files as well on the extra repo-site. That should be possible, but I think it is not a SuSE project. What would be needed is an open standard that sites could follow to signal that an update is available. Then one could build programs to check that, manually or automatically. But this is not on topic here. ---- Paul J. Gans --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
