12 of 6 updates are security updates

[Andrew Farris]

On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 13:37 +0100, R Kimber wrote:
[snippity snip]
> Could it mean that 12 security updates are available, but since you
> don't have all 12 packages installed, you can only update the 6 that you
> have installed?

But why in the world would the package manager tell you about an update
that you don't need? I mean... for example: 

if theres 2 security patches released in the same day, say 1 for Apache
and 1 for Network Manger, and do have NM on my system, but I don't have
Apache, why should I care if Apache was updated at all? The repo would
just update, and that would be the end of it. It would be useless
information to me in that circumstance, as the apache update doesn't
affect any of my software.


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Andrew
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