Re: [tdf-discuss] Automatic Updates

On 2010-10-08 3:23 AM, Thorsten Behrens wrote:
> Per Eriksson wrote:
> > Do we have skilled people here who are interested in beginning
> > with this effort, and maybe start planning for this feature?
> >
> > I've always been interested in pushing things like this forward
> > ;-)

> let me Cc two MSI packaging experts to comment on patchability 
> experiences.

Thanks... :)

> Regarding Linux - I skipped most of the discussion, but really - you 
> do *not* want to bypass the distro update mechanism. You really 
> don't. It's duplicating effort, will likely not result in any better 
> user experience - and, conversely, will annoy distro people, while we
> actually want to encourage them to actively participate in LibO 
> development.

While I agree totally as far as packages installed by the distro's
package management system, you (and others) seem to be forgetting two
things:

1. it would be the package maintainers responsibility to disable the
native auto-updater, thus preventing the user from accessing the native
auto-updater in the first place, and

2. one use case that may occur more often than you think - those power
users that install from source, thus totally bypassing their package
management system.

Inmho, #2 should be the deciding factor. If a user does this, then the
native updater should be enabled by default (but could be disabled by
the user with a compile time switch).

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Best regards,

Charles
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