On Wed, 2016-06-15 at 10:14 +0200, Ade wrote: > Hi all > > I dont really want this to be a negative post, just want to share > something in order to start a healthy discussion > > Background > Im a Fedora desktop user, have been for many years, going all the way > back to Fedora Core 1 - I use Fedora on a daily basis, its my main > (in fact only OS) > > Issue > Im very comfortable with the CLI, but spend the majority of the time > in the GUI - I noticed a behaviour change in myself recently - I now > NEVER use the GUI Software Update tool. I noticed the other day but > its been like this for quite some time. > > My workflow is - the GUI tool tells me there are updates, I dismiss > it and open a terminal and do sudo dnf update -y > > Why is this? Well some time ago the behaviour of the tool changed > and now the only way to proceed is to click in "Restart and Install" > and this is NEVER what I want to do. I never want to reboot my > desktop just to apply updates, Id rather apply all the updates and > reboot to bring in the new kernel (if there is one) when I have the > time > I cant help but feel this is, to me anyway,. a broken design, are > there others that feel the same or am I alone on this
+1 I was always wondering which user scenario the restart and install covers. On several occasions I could afford an "install + shutdown" (i.e., when I'm leaving the PC), but restart and install is something I've never needed/used. regards, Nikos -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
