On Sunday, February 16, 2020 12:19:41 PM MST Chris Murphy wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 11:08 AM John M. Harris Jr <joh...@splentity.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Thursday, February 13, 2020 1:34:32 PM MST Chris Murphy wrote:
> > 
> > > But the contra argument is, well what if there is an urgent security
> > > fix?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > The repo metadata, I guess, needs some way of distinguishing urgent vs
> > > non-urgent security updates, so that GNOME Software knows whether to
> > > notify the user accordingly. But is there a reliable way of
> > > distinguishing between urgent and non-urgent security updates? I'd
> > > informally suggest "urgent" is something that should be applied today
> > > or tomorrow. Anything else can wait a week or two.
> >
> >
> >
> > That's an entirely subjective thing. I'd recommend prompting to install
> > ALL security updates immediately, but why not just give the user an
> > option for security updates? This is what Mac and Windows do, and it
> > makes sense because it's really the user's opinion of security updates
> > that matter on their system.
> 
> 
> Windows has a weekly security and virus definitions update, not every
> day. Windows Home has no user visible opt out. macOS separates minor
> version updates and security updates, security updates aren't more
> often than every few weeks. There's a very rare category of critical
> security updates that Apple can forcibly push onto user's machine
> without consent.
> 
> The complaint on Fedora Workstation relates to frequent, sometimes
> daily, update notifications because a package has a security related
> update. The question is how to reduce this to once a week.

If that's the question, that's what you should have asked. Really, that's not 
something that should be done. Security updates are called security updates 
for a reason.

-- 
John M. Harris, Jr.
Splentity

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