On 01/18/2012 01:01 AM, Bennett Haselton wrote: > That's what I meant hen I said I thought it would be better for CentOS > to have auto-updates enabled by default out of the box. Power users can
That would change things too much and make everything into a moving target : not the best situation to be in. Also, its worth noting that while its easy to slip into a mindset where one imagines all machines everywhere being in vulnerable positions like on the internet etc, thats never the case. Lots and lots of machines will run well disconnected from the 'net', even these days. Would it make sense to have a middle ground where the option to turn on/off all system updates, by default, from the base repo's is put up install time for the user to decide howto handle things ? It would need to be limited to whats coming from the base distro repo's though. Since we cant assume all repos on every machine are always in a state where they are usable and upgradeable all the time. And yes, this does mean that if the base repo's are moving automatically, third party packagers and app vendors can no longer ask for and expect any sort of state. Otoh, it might be argued that the whole point of a stable distro is to not need that level of endorsement, the reality is that plenty of vendors do. -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh ICQ: 2522219 | Yahoo IM: z00dax | Gtalk: z00dax GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos