Problems with Updates

[Derek Broughton]

Mario Vukelic wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 16:09 -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
>> Well we've argued about that before, but it's certainly not a _supremely_
>> bad idea.
> 
> Sorry, but disabling _all_ security updates is. I agree that it might be
> ok to not perform all of them after checking the security announcement
> list, for example.

But there's really no way to do that without disabling all security updates
first...
> 
> However, you never know what is around the corner, and even if he has no
> services running, Firefox is a big target.
> 
>> And the _most likely_ risk, is no risk at all.
> 
> What can I do if he asked for the biggest risk? :)

I know - I agree with you!

>> Never?  You've _never_ had either X or sound break?  You have got to be
>> unique...
> 
> Not through a security update in a stable distro, no.

Heaven's it's easy enough to get X to break in normal usage.  I can't say I
recall a security update breaking it, but it's happened  so many times... I
_can_ recall security updates breaking sound.
-- 
derek