Re: Maintaining my own copy of UPDATES

On Thu, 26 Mar 2009, Les Mikesell wrote:

> With equal sarcasm, how would you feel if someone told you that you had to 
> edit some config file or make a special setup for every different http page 
> you want to visit just to get behavior that isn't antisocial?

Antisocial? Seriously? Antisocial is the pejorative you want there?

If I need to configure a special case for myself, it seems reasonable to 
me that I should have to configure something.

> If you would permit caching to work the way it is intended, distros probably 
> wouldn't need all those mirrors anyway and other people wouldn't have had to 
> invent a dozen different ways to work around what yum does when updating 
> multiple machines.

"Caching to work the way it is intended" - I don't even remotely know what 
you mean. More to the point, I bet if I asked 100 people what that means 
I'd get roughly 400 different answers.



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