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. 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. houghi -- Nutze die Zeit. Sie ist das Kostbarste, was wir haben, denn es ist unwiederbringliche Lebenszeit. Leben ist aber mehr als Werk und Arbeit, und das Sein wichtiger als das Tun - Johannes Müller-Elmau