Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (626 mails)

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

On 10/03/2008, peter nikolic <p.nikolic1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Should registration be mandatory i think not you are heading down the MS road
>  there  you have to remember not everyone has or even wants to be connected to
>  the net  so updates become a little pointless

Registration is not mandatory to have an update repository defined.
The addition of the update repository is simply a part of the
registration process at the moment. Probably from before we had the
redirector and the registration process was used to choose a mirror
close to you.

Obviously there are people who are not connected to the internet.
Having the update repository defined out of the box will result in a
failure when package management is started - but they can simply
disable the repository then. Surely this is better than the
alternative where a significant group of people who are connected to
the internet remain vulnerable.

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Benjamin Weber
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