Hi, That's a recurrent anti-pattern that Debian tries to get away from, like the old /etc/default/$<package> ENABLED=yes stuff.
Normal people expect stuff to just works out of the box; and things should be optimised for the most common case. You could rather use systemd functionnallity to disable/mask apt-daily-upgrade.timer. > some packages have unattended-upgrades as a dependency or in recommends I only see "plinth - web front end for administering every aspect of a FreedomBox" and "python3-software-properties" Greetings, 2018-06-29 9:26 GMT+02:00 annadane <fjfj...@protonmail.com>: > Package: unattended-upgrades > Severity: wishlist > > Dear Maintainer, > > If it were possible, I'd like to see unattended-upgrades not enable itself by > default when the user first installs it. I'm actually not sure what the > default is when you specifically tell it to install - aka "apt install > unattended-upgrades", but in any event I feel it should a) be off by default > unless the user specifically configures it to be on and more importantly b) > some packages have unattended-upgrades as a dependency or in recommends (I've > noticed it gets installed sometimes as an effect of installing some other > packages) - in that case ESPECIALLY it should really *not* be enabled by > default. Just my 2 cents. This also happens in Sid (it's not as catastrophic > in Stable though it can be) where one really wants to vet one's updates as > there's higher chance of breakage. > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: buster/sid > APT prefers unstable > APT policy: (500, 'unstable') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > > Kernel: Linux 4.16.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), > LANGUAGE=en_CA:en (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) > LSM: AppArmor: enabled >
