On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 08:30 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > If anybody tries to silently upgrade my machine, I refuse to use the > whole > system. No way, no how.
Well, there's silent and then they're Silent. I believe what Dan is proposing is a mechanism that will give users and/or system admins the choice of automagically installing high-priority updates on systems, <i>if</i> they trust their distro provider. And, if it's done, it would still record its actions in a log and alert the user/admin. This is silent with a small 's,' unlike Windows where sleath Silent and forced 'upgrades' are the order of the day. While personally I also like having absolute control over what gets upgraded, or what doesn't, in my OSs, I can see the utility of the system that Dan is looking for, and, as it happens, it sounds like PackageKit already has. Steven -- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols Editor-in-Chief, Practical Technology, http://www.practical-tech.com QOTD:"“We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”--Charles R. Swindoll _______________________________________________ Desktop_architects mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop_architects
