> It stops working after 30 days, then you register again. A minor hassle, I 
> admit, but then there's that thing about a free lunch?

a hassle enough that I dont even register again.  

> If you care enough, you can always mirror RedHat's RPM's and hack up2date 
> so that it connects to you instead of to RedHat. That's the beauty of open 
> source. You bypass RedHat, you take on the headaches of maintaining a fast 
> mirror. Seems fair to me..

never tried that, I FTP on demand (whenever I feel like it)
so you can imagine me having the trouble of ftp'ing 
dependencies all the time....not good.  maybe i do need
start a mirror.

> 
> rpm -UVH --force --nodeps
> 
> works fine for me. :))

Afraid to do that....lol

> Yeah well. It just annoys me when people go on a rant like that.

Understandable.

jondz
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