Re: [LAU] A sound decision

On 3/17/10, Ray Rashif <schivmeister@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> On 17 March 2010 17:20, Andras Simon <szajmi@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
>> On 3/17/10, Stephen Stubbs <theother1510@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> The other thing I like about Arch Linux is that it doesn't automatically
>>> check for updates, and it doesn't try to push updates on you. Now that I
>>
>> It's a minor point, but still: Fedora doesn't do this either. It's
>> PackageKit (or some such) that does, and it can be safely removed (or
>> not installed in the first place).
>
> Actually that can be configured in every package manager's GUI
> front-end (if not then that front-end itself shouldn't exist). But I
> suppose what was meant was that the default behaviour of not
> auto-updating (or having a GUI front-end) is appealing.

Yes, you're probably right on both counts. And no auto-update is of
course appealing for those who don't want auto-updating. But these
users should be able to find out in a few minutes how to remove this
feature.

Andras
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Received on Wed Mar 17 16:15:01 2010