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

[Scott Silva]

Karanbir Singh spake the following on 7/29/2006 6:10 PM:
> Chris Mauritz 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?
>>
> 
> up2date on centos has the capability to use a yum based repo as the
> backend. and yes, lots of people do continue to use up2date, either on
> the desktop via the gnome-up2date-applet or via the up2date TUI
> interface ( think if all those people who already had up2date tasks
> scripted in from legacy systems...., and sysadmins who are already
> familiar with up2date's command line interface ).
> 
> and its almost as much as 20% of all users ( last time I checked, end
> June 2006 ) were using up2date's mechanism, on CentOS-4/i386
> 
And also it makes it easier for the CentOS maintainers to use upstreams docs,
without having to edit and revise them. If they had to do the docs also, that
takes away from someones time that is better used making CentOS the rockin'
distro that it is!!

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