Looking at Package Management for Karmic or Karmic+1

Derek Broughton derek at pointerstop.ca
Mon Apr 6 02:18:36 UTC 2009


Felipe Figueiredo wrote:

> Remco escreveu:
>> Are there any problems with enabling automatic updates by default?
>> Most users don't care about updates to the point that they never
>> install them. And even if they would open the update manager, they
>>   
> Which is precisely why security should be *enforced* by the system.
> 
>> The way Microsoft does it, is that it asks (enabled by default) to
>> install updates on shutdown. I don't know how that would be better
>> than completely automatic updates.
>>   
> So, are you actually suggesting Ubuntu follows the way behind the *most*
> insecure OS in town?

"I don't know how that would be better..." - it looks like he's suggesting
we don't, if anything.

-- 
derek





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