Looking at Package Management for Karmic or Karmic+1

Remco remco47 at gmail.com
Fri Apr 3 23:00:29 UTC 2009


2009/4/3 (``-_-´´) -- BUGabundo <ubuntu at bugabundo.net>:
> Olá Remco e a todos.
>
> On Thursday 02 April 2009 14:12:00 Remco wrote:
>> One wishlist idea I have is that updates can be installed without having to provide a password.
>
> There's a public wishbug to allow Security Updates to be auto-installed, as an option available on OEM,regular installer an on Software Properties, under the tab Updates.
> I dont believe that regular updates should be auto installed, because it could lead to more regressions.

That's a different idea though. My idea is that having to provide a
password is an unnecessary hurdle to people. Why must a password be
provided to start the update process? A policy could be made to allow
the update manager to do its thing without passwords.




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