Looking at Package Management for Karmic or Karmic+1

Nils Kassube kassube at gmx.net
Sat Apr 4 06:40:27 UTC 2009


Matt Wheeler wrote:
> but can we trust update-manager not to break and give someone 
> privileges they shouldn't have? I don't know, maybe we can, I just
> think it's worth being very careful about it.

If you don't trust update-manager you would have to check everything 
after an update. I don't think anybody will do that even after 
providing the password. Most users don't even know what to look for to 
check the system.


Nils




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