[CentOS] RHN Up2date Cruft: can I dump it?

Chris Mauritz chrism at imntv.com
Sat Jul 29 17:46:34 UTC 2006


Jim Perrin wrote:
>> Out of curiosity, how come that stuff remains in the CentOS distro at
>> all since we're using yum to manage updates?  Or is there some strange
>> subset of folks that install CentOS and then subscribe to RH updates?
>
> What about redhat converts who want what's familiar to them while they
> adjust? Compatibility is a wonderful thing.

Compatibility is cool.  I guess I'm just wondering out loud if any 
significant portion of the userbase makes use of that compatibility...

I'm one of those folks that just punts those packages immediately after 
the install.  :-)

Cheers,




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