Em dom., 27 de dez. de 2020 às 03:02, M. Zhou <lu...@debian.org> escreveu:
> Hi folks, > > I don't quite understand the meaning of automatic upgrades on a rolling > system such as Debian/Sid. According to my own experience, such > automatic upgrades could be dangerous. > > Recently package ppp is pending for upgrade but it does not co-exist > with my currently installed network-manager. Today when I was shutting > down my machine, Gnome automatically checked the "install updates ..." > box for me before I realized its existence. As a result, the system > reboots and installed ppp by force, removing network-manager and break > my system for daily use as I need network-manager for wifi-access. > > I've been a daily Sid user for at least 4 years. Automatic upgrades are > to blame for nearly all my system troubles. And I feel very > disappointed every time linux behaves like M$ windows. > > So, do we have a consensus on whether automatic upgrades should be > enabled by default? > > Hi, Although you can disable this, I usually update and do most things via the command terminal. Using testing I run apt daily. I like to know what is being updated in the system. -- Cheers, Leandro Cunha Debian Contributor and developer.
