On Wed, 4 Feb 2009, Dan Kegel wrote:

> Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Should the user really want silent updates ?
> > For updates with priority "security", I think it should just pop-up more
> > often.
> 
> People ignore dialogs like that.   IMHO if we're going to avoid
> botnet nightmares, we're going to need at least some silent security updates.

I disagree violently.

If anybody tries to silently upgrade my machine, I refuse to use the whole 
system. No way, no how. 

I refuse to do it _EVEN_MORE_ if the person who decides that it's a 
"security fix" is not the distribution maker, but some random package 
creator. Sorry, Dan, but you're simply not that trustworthy.

The fact that you even _think_ you should be that trustworthy is totally 
irrelevant, and somewhat scary.

Crazy.

                Linus
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