Re: packages requiring me to reboot...

2009-12-18 Thread shmuel siegel
Otto Haliburton wrote: Windows now restarts each time a patch occurs, at the current time I can't think of any patch in the last 3 months which hasn't required a reboot. Another reason is that some of the windows operating systems are coming to their end of life cycle, and windows is

Re: Promoting i386 version over x86_64?

2009-12-08 Thread shmuel siegel
Kevin Kofler wrote: Ralf Corsepius wrote: * More packages (rpms) to cope with. Only if you pollute your system with 32-bit multilibs. A pure x86_64 system doesn't have any more packages than a 32-bit one. We don't even install multilibs by default anymore. Kevin Kofler

Re: Proposed F13 feature: drop separate updates repository

2009-12-02 Thread shmuel siegel
Ralf Corsepius wrote: Your concern is the bigger repodata? My download of repodata towards the end of a release, or from rawhide, is usually bigger than my download of packages. So yes, this would make a difference. On the otherhand, there probably could be a repodiff that would alleviate a

Re: Local users get to play root?

2009-11-19 Thread shmuel siegel
Jesse Keating wrote: On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 06:50 +, Keith G. Robertson-Turner wrote: The desktop users on my network might have difficulty doing any of those things, since their desktop access is via VNC tunnelled through ssh. However, now it seems they can arbitrarily install software

Re: yum-presto not on by default

2009-10-05 Thread shmuel siegel
Eric Springer wrote: Would it be possible to have a diff on the filelist db? It seems like a very large download for something that would change very little. Also the rawhide db itself. A guaranteed 8-12 megabyte download usually swamps out any saving from presto (barring changes to

Re: yum-presto not on by default

2009-09-23 Thread shmuel siegel
Jonathan Dieter wrote: Tried it and it works correctly for both directions (old rpm gzip, new rpm xz and vice versa). This would mean that drpms on rawhide will still suck upto F12, but I could live with that :). I assume we don't do F11 = F12 drpms? On the other side of it, does anyone

Jetty pulls in many other packages

2009-09-22 Thread shmuel siegel
Updating jetty (which I need for eclipse) now pulls in netbeans and tomcat among other things. Why would jetty need these other packages? Isn't it kind of defeating the purpose of jetty for it to need tomcat? -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com