[CentOS] Why so many updates already for CentOS 5

Fri Apr 13 11:03:23 UTC 2007
Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>

Mário Gamito wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've just installed CentOS 5.
> I issued a yum update, and to my astonishment there are already 75 MB of 
> updates.
> And i didn't even installed X.
> 
> Why is this ?

These are packages that have been updated since the time CentOS-5's 
package tree was frozen upstream. Btw, you might want to check what the 
updates are - its possible you have more software installed on the 
machine than you need.

- KB