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> The problem is if you want to distribute an important security update, what do you do? Ask everyone nicely to upgrade? What the application author wants isn'
by ptx 7y ago
> The problem is if you want to distribute an important security update, what do you do? Ask everyone nicely to upgrade?
What the application author wants isn't all that matters. It's the user's system, so they install what they want when they want to.
Ensuring that the user can easily install important updates while preserving the overall order of the system is the job of the disto maintainers for the distro the user has chosen. This is the whole point of distros. The alternative, where each individual application author has free rein to jam their app into the system without coordination, gets you the kind of mess Windows has.
- wstuartcl 7y agoThis. It is of no concern what the developer wants -- it is the USER's system. If there is a reason I want to be backreved on app or library XY or Z it is my concern. This is really the most bone headed change I have seen from ubuntu. It is "fine" to make auto updates the default. It is "not fine" to make it the only option. Have some respect for your userbase. Who was the bonehead that make this call -- so stupid.