On Vi, 28 mai 21, 02:44:30, Stella Ashburne wrote: > > The reason is that I find it too drastic a step. I chose to disable by > doing sudo systemctl disable unattended-upgrades. I did delete the > package called 50unattended-upgrades (as mentioned in my original > post.)
Installing packages on Debian is so easy that in most cases purging a package is a very safe method to disable a specific functionality. Removing files belonging to a package is typically frowned upon, as this can under specific circumstances be like pulling the rug from underneath a package (or worse, APT/dpkg). In the case of configuration files (basically everything that is under /etc and a few other places) it can cause unexpected or even unsafe behaviour as the software might revert to built-in defaults that could be wrong for your system. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser
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