Antoine Pitrou a écrit :
On Sat, 2 Jul 2011 13:22:30 +0200
Wolfgang Bornath<[email protected]>
wrote:
No need to. For me a system is a whole. If I have one insecure part
the whole system is insecure.
That's getting really off-topic. If you arguing that nobody should skip
any security update, then please make a proposal to make those
updates automatic and without user confirmation.
If OTOH Mageia asks the user to confirm updates manually (which it
currently *does*), then my request makes sense.
As has been said, you can safely remove suggested packages, so this
question about updates of suggested packages does not come up in the
first place.
That's another loss of time. Why should I bother removing many packages
by hand from my system? I don't lack disk space.
You are requesting that I dedicate a lot of time administrating and
tweaking my system. Well if I wanted to do that I'd install Debian,
Gentoo or FreeBSD. There's a reason I use Mageia, which is to have a
system which is user-friendly by default and doesn't ask for a lot of
manual intervention. Being able to review updates without first typing
a password is also part of that.
Regards
Antoine.
With the right adjustement of the present tools, you could spend less time on
administration than you do now. Since updates are part of system administration.
Suppose during the update process you have a check box to put a particular
update on the skip list, or another to uninstall the corresponding package.
If the package is uninstalled, you would no longer have to deal with updates to
it, so the update process would be faster.
Note that if you can't uninstall a package because it is required, it is usually
inadvisable skip updates, unless you really understand the issues.
If you don't have a limited bandwidth, there is usually no disadvantage to
installing all updates for such packages.
Changing when the password is requested would reduce the security for the
system, as unauthorised users could see what is installed. This may not affect
you personnally, but such an option would best not be the default, to protect
other systems. So it could be more complicated than the changes suggested
above, and would only save you a few seconds.
Regards
--
André
