On Wed, October 29, 2014 9:06 am, Steve Clark wrote: > On 10/29/2014 10:02 AM, Beartooth wrote: >> I'm running CentOS 6 (6.5 iirc) on my wife's machine, which I've >> been updating pretty much every day. Today yum got 425 packages! >> >> Somewhere a dam must have broken. Sometimes some of us don't >> appreciate how much work the developers do. >> >> Strength to their arms, and many heartfelt thanks! > +100 > Me too. I was [mistakenly, apparently] always considering 5.[n+1], 6.[m+1] just re-spins, thus providing latest packages with _backported_ security patches/bugfixes, aimed at providing installation media that is not entail millions of updates. "Releases" with newer versions, drivers included in kernel shuffled, the new kernel (without any necessity in it) which causes hassle to reboot the box... This all effectively defeats the "Enterprise" portion of the name of the system, doesn't it? Do not take it as me not being appreciative of the great job the distribution maintainers do. I'm just trying to give a view of us, "users" who have to deal with the consequences... Valeri ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++