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Re: unattended-upgrades by default



Holger Levsen wrote:
>On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 02:13:58PM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
>> Two months ago, Steve wrote:
>> > * enable it for installation via d-i by default. At installation
>> [it being unattended-upgrades]
>> What's the status of this? I do not like this idea, it interacts
>> poorly with desktops which handle upgrades via PackageKit 
>
>can't this be solved by PackageKit breaking unattended-upgrades or
>providing a new meta-package "default-upgrade-mechanism", which could
>also be provided by the unattended-upgrades package?

That's the kind of thing I was thinking of, yes. I'm proposing
unattended-upgrades as a default only for systems that don't already
have their own mechanism for upgrades...

-- 
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
< sladen> I actually stayed in a hotel and arrived to find a post-it
          note stuck to the mini-bar saying "Paul: This fridge and
          fittings are the correct way around and do not need altering"


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