On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 07:32:09PM +0400, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 July 2003 18:59, Keld J�rn Simonsen wrote:
> > The man was asking for a tool to notify him whether there be any updates
> > to run, on a regulary basis. I think then my line above is an answer to
> > his request. Anyway it is up to him if he can use the suggestion.
> 
> Sigh ... the man was asking for a tool that
> 
> - is part of distribution
> - is available and enabled by default
> - does not require cron knowledge
> - does not require urpmi knowledge
> - DOES NOT REUIRE ANY KNOWLEDGE AT ALL
> 
> i.e. he was asking for a standard part of every (professional) Windows program 
> now-a-days - configuration dialog "check for updates - dayly, weekly, ..., 
> never".

A good request. I think that could be done as part of the installation
process, and also available somewhere in the mandrake control center.
I would like this to be set up very easily, as a defalult possibly.
It is said that 80 % do not do the necessary updates of vital security
fixes, I would like that to be catered for - for novices. I think it
would be quite simple, the urpmi --auto-update could do everything needed
under the hood.

> when I repost some article from a.o.l.m on cooker, I usually do it to 
> demonstrate what *real* users expect from Mandrake. This request has been 
> fairly common ...

I second the request.

keld

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