https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=435525
Nate Graham <n...@kde.org> changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Component|Updates (interactive) |Updates (unattended)
CC| |n...@kde.org
Summary|bulk offline upgrades are |Offline upgrades don't let
|not good |you choose to not update
| |certain packages
Severity|wishlist |normal
Ever confirmed|0 |1
Status|REPORTED |CONFIRMED
--- Comment #3 from Nate Graham <n...@kde.org> ---
The decision about whether to do offline or interactive updates is up to the
distro, not Discover, so if you don't like them, you'll have to take it up with
them. As for why it might be desirable, it's so that you don't end up with your
system in a half-upgraded state, with software still running using old
libraries still loaded into memory, while anything newly launches or any
plugins newly loaded getting the new stuff. This situation causes tons and tons
and tons and tons of subtle bugs for users, which is why a reboot is always
recommended anyway after updating. People ignoring that advice has been the
cause of millions of problems over the years. So this new method essentially
makes the always-recommended reboot mandatory.
But again, that's neither here nore there; it's up to the distro, not Discover.
So let's use this to track the fact that you can't de-select packages to
upgrade when doing offline upgrades.
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