I wish Fedora would update the ISOs periodically

My one real beef with Fedora is that they never update the ISOs. The ISOs
that they provide for FC4 are 6 months old so virtually everything on them
has to be updated which makes a fresh install a multihour process.
What's worse is that you can end up in RPM hell where you have to update
packages individually because YUM is so stupid that it won't update
anything if a single package in it's list has a conflict even of the other
300 packages don't. I've been getting around the problem by doing near
minimum installs from CDs, i.e. just the basics plus X, no Gnome or any
applications except Emacs, and then using yumex to install everything else
from the net. This gets around the RPM conflict problem but it still takes
many hours to install everything (I have 1M DSL). Why can't they update
the ISOs every 3 or 4 months, it would make everyone's life easier and it
would cut down on the bandwidth requirements to the servers? Also why
can't the add a switch to yum to allow it do an update and install
everything that doesn't have a conflict and leave only the few packages
that do?

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