Re: Online Update vs System Update?

Broderick Crawford wrote:
Do you really want a new version of a product with new configuration
syntax, etc. to decimate your environment (potentially)?
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Whatever the security fixes are on older versions are (I assume) already
included in the newer versions so you really don't need the security
updates if you keep current with program versions.
If they have security updates for the new versions fine, otherwise I
don't need the old patches for the new versions. A lot of KDE stuff is
version updated weekly.

Suree, but newer versions might break other things. Security is not just
about that one program. The interest ope openSUSE is not the security of
one application, like the firewall, or a group of aspplications, like
KDE. Their interest is about security and stability and suportability of
the complete openSUSE distribution.

If it were just a thing of 'add the latest version to your distro', then
things would be simple. They are not.



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