On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl(a)thelounge.net> wrote:
Am 19.06.2012 06:45, schrieb Adam Williamson:
> On Mon, 2012-06-18 at 16:32 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote:
>
>> if things are working fine they do not need to be reinvented
>> and developed forever - the problem i see the last years is
>> that way to often are wroking things replaced because people
>> can not life with the fact that things sometimes are finished
>> and good as they are
>
> One trigger for the current proposal was the discovery, quite late in
> F17 cycle, that if you reboot while PK is automatically installing
> security updates, you can entirely screw your system.
>
> We shipped F16 with PackageKit set up, by default, to silently
> automatically install security updates
Ah so you made a BIG MISTAKE as decision and now try
to fix it in all sort of ways?
who do developers think they are installing SILENT
system-upgrades as default? you must not touch the
setup of a enduser without a question before
[citation needed]
so do not fix the rsult, fix the problem and give
users back the control of their system
Here is a scientific study that refutes your claims:
http://www.techzoom.net/publications/silent-updates/