Bug#838734: [plasma-discover] plasma-discover uninstalls packages during upgrades without asking for confirmation
Thanks.
Another scenario to consider is a user that doesn't know any better enables a poorly maintained third party repository that contains conflicting packages that cause large numbers of removals.
This can happen post-release and is a scenario the user base you're targeting is particularly vulnerable to.
Scott K
On September 25, 2016 2:28:37 PM EDT, Matthias Klumpp <matthias@tenstral.net> wrote:
>Discover is for end-users with no technical knowledge. Showing extra
>dialog boxes with crazy text won't help and just be visual clitter,
>since people will press "Yes" anyway. Also, Discover isn't really to
>blame for the underlying problem, which is a busted archive, something
>that never happens in any stable distribution.
>However, it would be nice if Discover handled this situation better on
>unstable development versions of a distro.
>
>I see the following possible solutions:
>
>1) Have Discover detect an unstable distribution, and if it finds one,
>show an extra confirmation box if changes that cause the removal of a
>package are detected.
>
>2) Just display removals as seperate items in the updates list
>unconditionally - people on unstable distros would just need to read
>the information then.
>
>3) Show a "This update is potentially disruptive if you are using an
>unstable distribution" or any other meaningful message when big
>changes are detected (e.g. > 10 packages being removed)
>
>Since even on stable distros sometimes transitions happen and stuff
>gets removed, adding an unconditional dialog seems like a bad idea,
>simply because it's meaningless for average users.
>
>I'll talk to the usability people about the different options, and
>hopefully we can land one of them before Plasma 5.8 is released.
>
>Cheers,
> Matthias
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