Hello, "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflor...@pelzflorian.de> skribis:
> When installing Guix System from the iso image, users should be told > to pull and reconfigure regularly. Even though it is mentioned in the > manual, not everyone reads manuals. I believe Guix’ target users > include inexperienced users who do not know that they should update > and upgrade regularly. Therefore the installer should tell users how > to do so and that it is important and perhaps what to do if things > break. The ‘guix’ command itself tells you to do so. But of course, if you never run ‘guix’, you never see that message. > Of course, some users still won’t update and they should have the > liberty to decide for themselves, but some users just forget to > update. Ubuntu defaults to automatic updates, which slow down the > machine and annoy users. Still, maybe there should be notifications > like a cron job invoking libnotify’s notify-send. Sounds like something we can do. Ultimately though, what can we do for users who do not read the manual and do not run ‘guix’ either? Would a notification really help? Longer-term I think we should have an unattended upgrade service, and it should probably be part of ‘%desktop-services’. Thoughts? Ludo’.
