On Thursday 04 January 2007 08:16, Anne Wilson wrote:
And there I want to chip in. One big bugbear is when
things that were working get broken by updates. I think
that one small change would be immensely helpful here.
Either people don't do updates at all - in which case
vulnerabilities mount - or they get the lot, and things
occasionally get broken. Bear in mind that this class of
user usually doesn't need the absolute latest and
greatest - just a reasonably up-to-date version of his
software. Surely it would be possible to make a simple
way to take security fix updates only? That way you
could automate the updates for normal use, and they could
get other updates with the aid of someone more
knowledgeable if necessary.
Maybe the possibility already exists. If it is, then it
needs publicising.
Anne
IIRCC Mandrake did things this way. I don't know if
Mandriva still does.