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David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>:
> Not at all - that's what up2date is for. If I want something newer than the
> latest certified erratum release from some vendor with a clue, then I
> probably ought to know what I'm doing. 

OK. There are enough real barriers tere.  Why leave artificial ones in place?

> Making it _easier_ for Aunt Tillie to install something like 2.4.10 is not 
> necessarily doing her a favour.

But making it unnecessarily harder is *certainly* not a favor.
-- 
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never had) the capacity for clear and realistic thought. He is not a
mere ass: he is actually ill.	-- H. L. Mencken 
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