On 7/24/06, Jim Perrin <jperrin at gmail.com> wrote: > > > You surely want them, but I can't see why it's a bad concept-- "Distro > X > > has published Y weekly MB of updates on average over the last year" is > just > > a fact. > > > Distro X has had 650MB of updates over the course of the last 4 months. > Distro Y has had 130MB of updates over the same period. > > Which one is more secure or stable? Y is, per my former definition, more stable. As for security, stability has nothing to do with it, nor I am at the moment interested in it, nor am I pretending to derive any quality assessment from this very simple fact. Seems that I have expressed myself very poorly. The above hypothetical should illustrate why your method is flawed. > It's not "bad" exactly, nor is it entirely wrong. It just doesn't > figure everything into the equation. It is not a method for anything, nor an equation, it is just a measurement. I don't pretend those facts to be a useful measure to reasonably conclude anything. Of course you still need to take into account several other measurements to fit into any theory... -- Eduardo Grosclaude Universidad Nacional del Comahue Neuquen, Argentina -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060724/67988e8b/attachment-0005.html>