On Wednesday 04 Feb 2009 21:51:32 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.
Going with your example of silent upgrades, I still have one question: I have konqueror open with 10 tabs and have no plans to close them as they have many TODO items (I'm surviving with swsusp). A Konqueror vulnerability was discovered and was silently updated on my box by my distro vendor. Am I not supposed to be restarting my web browser for the fix to be effective ? I used openSUSE 11.x for a while and really liked their pop-up approach where it asked the user to log out and log back in for the changes to be effective. If using silent updates, you'd still expect the user to follow certain pop-ups or root-tail a log file where your silent-upgrade-daemon logs its activity. Not practical. Ritesh -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com "Necessity is the mother of invention."
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