more user-friendly than Update manager?

CLIFFORD ILKAY clifford_ilkay-biY6FKoJMRdBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org
Sat May 12 19:01:44 UTC 2012


On 05/07/2012 09:51 PM, Mr Chris Aitken wrote:
> Yeah, I guess if I'm not short on hard disk space I should just let all
> the updates run. I guess I still have a little of that MS-inspired fear
> (though I haven't used MS for anything other than digital music
> recording on a standalone box for decades) that the more unnecessary
> stuff I have on the computer the slower it will run. I guess i should
> relax with linux...

Today's Fedora 16 updates on my machine consisted of 148 packages 
totalling 305M. Deltarpm reduced that to 24M. It only took a couple of 
minutes for the whole process. I'm not concerned about disk space or 
memory footprint since I have lots of both.
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