On Wed, 08 Feb 2012, Renaud (Ron) Olgiati wrote: > On Wednesday 08 Feb 2012 11:57 my mailbox was graced by a message from > nicolas > vigier who wrote: > > It's not clear if we are talking about installing updates only, or > > upgrading to a new version of the distribution. > > In my case, which started this thread, it was an update that hosed the system. > > > Installing updates is supposed to be safe and can be allowed by default > > with user password. > > In this case it caused KDE to crash at start of session. > > > But upgrading to a new distribution is more dangerous and should > > probably only be allowed with root password. > > Update was bad enough, and should not be allowed to user either ;-3)
The problem is the bad update, not that it was allowed without root password. Updates should not hose the system, and that's why there is a policy on no new versions in update when possible, and qa tests.
