Paul J. Gans wrote:
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.
that's not really how it works. security patches have to be done by somebody. somebody trustfull. this is a lot of work. and it has to be done for any *nix flavor... nearly impossible. Security update is one of the main reason to stay with a distribution. and don't be paranoid, LyX security breaches should not be that dangerous... if you don't use it as root. time ago (not so long :-), SUSE LyX rpm where done by a LyX user. If ever it happened that a fool could take this work and setup a trojan horse in the application he package, there would be little to do. install the rpm, all is nice. two months later.. Boom. two days after, we would have the patch, but the harm could be done. and so? nothing to do. keep backups... :-) jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/galerie_photo_web/expo/index.html http://lucien.dodin.net http://fr.susewiki.org/index.php?title=Gérer_ses_photos