On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 2:23 PM John M. Harris Jr <johnmh(a)splentity.com> wrote:
On Sunday, February 16, 2020 12:19:41 PM MST Chris Murphy wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 11:08 AM John M. Harris Jr <johnmh(a)splentity.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Thursday, February 13, 2020 1:34:32 PM MST Chris Murphy wrote:
> >
> > > But the contra argument is, well what if there is an urgent security
> > > fix?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > The repo metadata, I guess, needs some way of distinguishing urgent vs
> > > non-urgent security updates, so that GNOME Software knows whether to
> > > notify the user accordingly. But is there a reliable way of
> > > distinguishing between urgent and non-urgent security updates? I'd
> > > informally suggest "urgent" is something that should be applied
today
> > > or tomorrow. Anything else can wait a week or two.
> >
> >
> >
> > That's an entirely subjective thing. I'd recommend prompting to
install
> > ALL security updates immediately, but why not just give the user an
> > option for security updates? This is what Mac and Windows do, and it
> > makes sense because it's really the user's opinion of security updates
> > that matter on their system.
>
>
> Windows has a weekly security and virus definitions update, not every
> day. Windows Home has no user visible opt out. macOS separates minor
> version updates and security updates, security updates aren't more
> often than every few weeks. There's a very rare category of critical
> security updates that Apple can forcibly push onto user's machine
> without consent.
>
> The complaint on Fedora Workstation relates to frequent, sometimes
> daily, update notifications because a package has a security related
> update. The question is how to reduce this to once a week.
If that's the question, that's what you should have asked. Really, that's
not
something that should be done. Security updates are called security updates
for a reason.
Yes they are, but it's also about sensible risk management. Most home
users can put off *most* updates (security or otherwise) for a month
without too much worrying. Business users may have a different risk
profile, depending on network topology and other factors.
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