On 11/02/2011 11:19 AM, Yury V. Zaytsev wrote: > On Wed, 2011-11-02 at 11:13 +0200, Manuel Wolfshant wrote: >> I really see no reason to change the policy of updates because of this >> package. > Think of the horrible time management mess in heterogeneous systems > across two continents, where CentOS 6 without CR enabled by default is > combined with CentOS 5 (which has already received this update) and > other distributions. > > If it doesn't affect your personal machines, Given the figures that you have mentioned, I suspect that my "personal" machines are in the same order of magnitude as yours. And they also span several continents. And we have a clear policy regarding updates. Including pushing "emergency fixes" to those that need it.But our policy does not mandate changes in the distro policy, it gets adapted according to it. > it doesn't mean that it > doesn't affect hundreds of thousands of other servers. Anyway, it's too > late now, by this time most would cherry-pick this update from CR...