Software updater snuck in a package that is unwanted

[Bret Busby]

On 21/10/2017, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 21 October 2017 at 08:11, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 21/10/2017, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 21 Oct 2017 7:17 a.m., "Bret Busby" <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I have the following suggestions, which I believe to be
>>> useful and worthwhile.
>>>
>>>
>>> A simple question, how do you know when an important security update is
>>> required?
>>>
>> ....
>> So, while your question may have appeared to be simple, the answer may
>> not be as simple as expected. See the proverb in my signature.
>
> May I try a different question then? How would you expect a user who
> has never heard of CERT advisories to know about security updates?
>
> Colin
>

1. Every computer user should subscribe to the CERT advisories. I
realise that probably less than 1% of computer users, are aware of the
CERT advisories, but, I believe that this is a case where "educating
the masses" would be helpful.

2. As stated in my reply to your previous question:

"
Regarding the issue of security (and other software) updates being
available, in Ubuntu, ever since I found them (the following), I have
applied a panel
applet, which provides notifications, which (I believe) invokes the
Software Updater notifier of the updates being available, so that,
when updates become available, a pop-up (?) window's presence is shown
in the taskbar, and, clicking on that, opened the window of the
Software Updater.
"

That, I believe, makes unattended-upgrades redundant.

I realise that other people may strongly disagree with me on that
point, but, the method had so far, kept my systems in use, relatively
updated.

-- 

Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia

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"So once you do know what the question actually is,
 you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
 Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
 "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
 A Trilogy In Four Parts",
 written by Douglas Adams,
 published by Pan Books, 1992

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