Only that with fixed point releases you set aside a day or so to download, burn, transport and load. You wouldn't want to be doing that daily on the off chance that something relevant has been added. Horses for courses, the problem won't affect most people as Nataraj said.
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On Wed, 16 Nov 2011, Rushton Martin wrote:
One exception is those machines behind a firewall that does not allow downloads. The only upgrade path then is to download on another machine and burn DVDs. CR repos are not helpful in such a case!
I really don't get your point. How is that worse than an update repo, or even a full 6.1 release. In both cases you're forced to get it past your firewall by some method, even if that is sneakernet.
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