https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=216097 ------- Comment #48 from benji.weber@gmail.com 2007-04-25 05:58 MST ------- (In reply to comment #45)
I do and I do not agree! If it's opt-in it does not encourage any more than YaST does now. It is just a pain to have to look every day into YaST, just in case there might be updated packages.
Opt in would be fine, but it still requires someone to have time to do it, and there is quite a lot of work to implement this properly. It is not as simple as checking for newer packages, there needs to be modifications to the yast module which is called , and design of an appropriate UI there. All in all quite a lot of work for a feature we is not good for most users. There are lots of more pressing matters which require attending to: fixing the sw_single and YOU UIs for example. I doubt a patch which implemented this feature as opt-in would be rejected though.
The only harmful thing is to think that users are dumb. Making mistakes and asking questions is part of learning your system, if you do not like that, do not hang around IRC and do not allow any user to know its root-password. Because knowing it might be harmful!
Users should not be forced to learn a system in detail, only a small percentage of users actually care about learning how a system works, the vast majority just want to use it. <insert car analogy here> -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.