I might be a bit biased as I am more concerned about the enterprise Linux desktop but having the ability to "opt-in" for automated security related patches would be a good thing. Some regulatory compliance rule sets absolutely look at (insert package type here) versions and knowing that compliance for those packages are met automatically makes interfacing with an auditor that much easier.
I think that this "feature" would be easier to sell in an enterprise distribution like SLED (where quality assurance and accountability are considered) but don't see why "grandma" using distro x should care as long as she is given a clear option to "opt-in". Plus, in case of _insert unexpected negative result here_, with rollback it should be pretty straight forward to revert to a previous working configuration. My 2 cents, Cole -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dave Neary Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 2:38 PM To: Mike Shaver Cc: [email protected]; Dan Kegel Subject: Re: [Desktop_architects] Shouldn't distros and ISVs ensure that security updates get deployed promptly? Hi Mike, Mike Shaver wrote: > On 4-Feb-09, at 12:28 PM, Dan Kegel wrote: >> Yes. And there are lots of opportunities to annoy the user here >> (e.g. Firefox doesn't get this right yet, as the browser is kind of broken >> after the update until you restart it). > > How so? Until you update, all that's done is downloading the delta > file, so nothing is done until you restart... If downloading that delta > archive is hurting the browser, I would quite appreciate a bug report so > we can look into it; I haven't heard that report before. I for one get annoyingly frequent XUL errors when opening bookmarks, or when entering URLs directly into the magnificentbar, after upgrading Mozilla (I can't vouch for whether this has happened only for major version upgrades - I believe it's happened at least once on a minor upgrade). Could it be something related to the dynamic loading of javascript & the DOM changing? Thunderbird & the address book has similar issues. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [email protected] _______________________________________________ Desktop_architects mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop_architects _______________________________________________ Desktop_architects mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop_architects
