On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 5:24 AM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net> wrote: > On Sat, 2014-02-08 at 10:02 +0000, Joe wrote: >> >> The risk is about having that happen without noticing. Generally, I >> keep an eye on what sid is updating, but even this long after a >> release, it's still tens of megabytes a day. I don't check all of them > > I always read all package names before updating, for each distro I use. > For Arch in addition I should read the news on the homepage, but often I > don't do it. > > Newbies are unable to evaluate what package updates could be very risky, > so for Debian they should stay with stable and for Arch they always > should read the news first. > > And they never ever should update Ubuntu :D.
My parents upgrade their Ubuntu laptops, iPads, and iPhones the way that most non-technical do, when they're prompted to do so. They don't have any problems and there's no way that they'd be interested in checking package names - or understanding these names if they read them. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=SxPC2qfV2taff52LQdgdDL_K1zGxrvppP-fzLJ=dfp...@mail.gmail.com