general questions about updates

[Chris Aitken]

I just got my first "There are four updates" offering. Then I get to 
view the updates to accept them or not. Is there any general wisdom 
about accepting these updates?

1. Are they usually so small you might as well just take 'em all?
2. Are they likely to enhance operations of other applications - ones 
that don't seem to be related to the update package? For instance is 
elfutils likely to help me with anything other than an app called "elf" 
(if there is such a beast)?
3. Are the offerings customized to my system, or are they just all the 
updates created in the four days since I installed fedora7 (four seems 
like a lot, btw - I'm amazed how people work on these things for nothing 
but the pleasure of doing a good thing)?

Here are the offerings:

updated elfutils packages available
updated liberation-fonts packages available
updated liboil packages available
updated rpm packages available

None of those packages ring a bell - other than rpm.

Thanks,

Chris
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