Dick Gevers wrote:
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 22:25:04 +0300, Thomas Backlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about
Re: [expert] Why is urpmi such a pain in the ...?:


Vincent Danen kirjoitti viestiss��n (l�hetysaika Keskiviikko 17 Syyskuu
2003 22:07):


{ Avi Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> }


icon in the KDE task bar which changes color when there are updates
available.  Click on it and you get a menu allowing you to check for
updates, show the last update log or start the update process.  very
nice, clean and can help users keep their system safe.

I agree, this would be nice and hopefully this is something that can be done for 9.3 or 10.0.

AFAIK in contribs there is a package started with the aim of doing this: mdk-check-update-*

I haven't tested it myself so I can't say if it works...



With all due respect to you all, but I don`t like the idea one bit. It means Mandrakesoft has a line into my taskbar which I did not ask for. Just as I

I don't think that's what it means. What it means is a cron job runs urpmi.update to check if the update files on the mirror have changed and, if so, notify the user that a new update is available. This is no more revealing of your private information than running MandrakeUpdate in attended mode.


Rolf

don`t like Microsoft working interactively with my computer, or other
adware/spyware calling home when I still used Windows, I wouldn`t like
Mandrakesoft to have a thread into any corner of my boxes. If it`s an
optional package,  fine I won`t use it. If it comes built in the distro I
will disable it, remove it or whatever it takes to avoid it. It goes against
my sense of privacy. Maybe not to that of others, very well, but I don`t
like the idea.

Just my EUR 0.02.

Ciao,
=Dick Gevers=




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