Re: How to block kernel updates
On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 5:24 AM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 2014-02-08 at 10:02 +0000, Joe wrote:
>>
>> The risk is about having that happen without noticing. Generally, I
>> keep an eye on what sid is updating, but even this long after a
>> release, it's still tens of megabytes a day. I don't check all of them
>
> I always read all package names before updating, for each distro I use.
> For Arch in addition I should read the news on the homepage, but often I
> don't do it.
>
> Newbies are unable to evaluate what package updates could be very risky,
> so for Debian they should stay with stable and for Arch they always
> should read the news first.
>
> And they never ever should update Ubuntu :D.
My parents upgrade their Ubuntu laptops, iPads, and iPhones the way
that most non-technical do, when they're prompted to do so.
They don't have any problems and there's no way that they'd be
interested in checking package names - or understanding these names if
they read them.
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