On Thursday 04 January 2007 08:16, Anne Wilson wrote: > And there I want to chip in. One big bugbear is when > things that were working get broken by updates. I think > that one small change would be immensely helpful here. > > Either people don't do updates at all - in which case > vulnerabilities mount - or they get the lot, and things > occasionally get broken. Bear in mind that this class of > user usually doesn't need the absolute latest and > greatest - just a reasonably up-to-date version of his > software. Surely it would be possible to make a simple > way to take security fix updates only? That way you > could automate the updates for normal use, and they could > get other updates with the aid of someone more > knowledgeable if necessary. > > Maybe the possibility already exists. If it is, then it > needs publicising. > > Anne IIRCC Mandrake did things this way. I don't know if Mandriva still does.
