Bug#585097: change update-notifier-kde from depends to recommends
Hi,
I very strongly support Alan's proposal.
Since update-notifier-kde logically depends on update-notifier-common, this
implies that installing kde-standard to get a coherent standard desktop
environment will
1) trigger periodic edits of /etc/motd (through
/etc/update-motd.d/90-updates-available)
2) consequently sporadically slow down every "first-login-of-the-day" to the
host
3) display a notification popup on the first-logged user's desktop about
available updates, whether notifying this user is relevant or not.
Such a behaviour might be sensible (albeit this is disputable) on a machine
always used by a single user but it is quite unbearable on a real multi-user
host where ordinary users do not have administrative privileges.
Thanks in advance,
pp
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