[CentOS] Selectively updating protected repos

William L. Maltby BillsCentOS at triad.rr.com
Mon Jul 3 20:08:04 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 12:57 -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On 7/3/06, William L. Maltby <BillsCentOS at triad.rr.com> wrote:
> > This may be a dumb question, but can we be sure firefox from one repo is
> > compatible with what a user runs?
> 
> That's already a problem, independent of the protectbase plugin. One
> must already be careful of what repositories one enables, outside of
> the CentOS set. Using includepkgs or exclude to restrict partly
> compatible or incompatible repositories is both appropriate and
> satisfactory.

Until one has such a large number of them that it becomes cumbersome. A
standard response "if they have that many ...." doesn't cut it either,
as this whole environ is about freedom of choice.

> <snip sig stuff>

-- 
Bill
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