On Sat, 2006-02-11 at 13:52 +0100, Jos van Kan wrote:
Ken Schneider wrote:
On Sat, 2006-02-11 at 00:14 -0500, John Perry wrote:
(knip)
Well, usually. I still can't resist scanning the craplist every once in a while to make sure it really is all crap.
Interesting, patches that fix security holes are considered crap. Perhaps it would have been better to say, patches that are not necessary to my system. These security updates certainly are not crap.
No they are not security updates. Most of them are localization files (for OO 1 for crying out loud) and I agree with Allen that it would be nice to be able to say "No I'm not downloading those files, not now, not ever, never". And whether they are crap or not is all in the eye of the beholder.
I believe that the people that volunteer their time to write these programs would highly disagree with you calling them crap. But I will also agree that displaying patches/updates that do not apply to what I have installed should have a means of being hidden from view just as installed patches/updates are. Provide an option in the pulldown to should patches/updates for packages -not- installed. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998