Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (626 mails)

["Benji Weber" <b.weber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/03/2008, Martin Schlander <suse@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> You guys think that removing for example adding of update repo from
>  installation and forcing the user to figure out himself how to do it manually
>  later, will make openSUSE easier for people to use? Isn't ~everybody
>  _supposed_ to set up update repo sometime anyway?

One of the things we've noticed on IRC with 10.2/10.3  is that a
significant proportion of people skip the connection test or
registration steps, thinking "I don't want to send any information to
Novell". So they end up without security updates. Meaning

- Their systems become insecure.
- Installation of nvidia/ati/madwifi drivers etc fail once the kernel
module symbols change

IMO it should be less easy to opt out of having the update repository
configured. Users simply are not adding it themselves with community
repositories or even noticing that the tray updater warning them it
can't check for updates. Perhaps have it added by the installation
with option to remove it later. Even if no internet access is
available during installation. It can be separate from the
registration now that we have the redirector surely?

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Benjamin Weber
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