Blindauer Emmanuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

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> 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/

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