On Sunday 05 April 2009 4:45:38 pm Remco wrote: > On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 9:29 PM, Mackenzie Morgan <maco...@gmail.com> wrote: > > There's already an option in System -> Administration -> Software sources to > > have updates installed automatically. There's also cron (the reason my mom's > > computer gets updates at all). > > Are there any problems with enabling automatic updates by default? > Most users don't care about updates to the point that they never > install them. And even if they would open the update manager, they > would more likely just install all updates than select the updates > they want. Hell, that's the way I work! How many people actually > benefit from any interaction with the update manager?
The only trouble is that some updates stop services. Hal may need to be restarted, and if Firefox isn't restarted after an update it breaks royally. -- Mackenzie Morgan http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com apt-get moo
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