I found this very annoying when testing for #Fedora-qa where there was a
long delay on reboot as the updates were applied.
Automatic downloads can be turned off when not wanted:[1].
It can a risk to leave them turned off in a non-testing environment.
Tom Gilliard
{1}http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Fedora_21#Turn_off_gnome_automatic_background_updates
On 12/28/2013 5:30 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Sat, 2013-12-28 at 20:36 +0000, Naheem Zaffar wrote:
The default notification required a reboot to action.
(If you ingore it and shutdown, the updates will not be carried out or
prompted at next boot).
An issue is that even though you dont hve to reboot straight away,
knowing that there are updates that need to be applied through
rebooting is itself a nag. Too many and people will get desensitised
to the need to apply updates and that is IMO a bad thing.
Knowing that your system is not up to date can also cause a feel of
unease when using the system.
Updates are important but there is a social aspect to them too.
physical notification should be on a weekly basis and upon booting the
system they should be automatically applied or a prompt given so that
you can apply them and not boot, then reboot to get the updates.
This is actually already how it works, or how it's designed to. It's not
hard to confirm: read the settings in dconf
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.updates . It notifies of non-security
updates once a week, and security updates immediately.
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