Blindauer Emmanuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...]
> I'm a (l)user, and I don't care a lot about security (ex: only when my BOFH > cries). So when he cries, I launch MandrakeUpdate. kde3.0.5a has to be > upgraded. I use a dsl, so downloading the whole stuff takes me 5h. But if > it is 16h, and I quit my job at 18. so I have only 2 hours left to > download the whole stuff, so next morning I have to remember, when I come > at work to launch the download. that's a first idea to break the download > in several times. Yes. > Next idea, is that: If I must download the upgrades, why can't the computer > detect it, and download it in my place ? when it will have all the > packages, I will provide the root passwd to install these upgrades. Yes that may be possible as well. > My idea is to download the stuff without requesting a user action (but it > can notify him), and only ask the root passwd, to do the install of the > packages Yes that could be an option to the other idea which was "mail alert on updates", e.g. "mail alert + begin download". That may be a cool new application, I agree. -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
