Bug#861495: plasma-discover: recommend apt-config-auto-update instead of software-properties-kde
On 29/04/17 20:23:58 CEST, Matthias Klumpp wrote:
> The apt-config-auto-update package enables automatic periodic cache
> updates on systems that *do not* use PackageKit. For systems where
> PackageKit is installed, the PK frontend uses PackageKit to request
> update information.
About the package cache, isn't it in common between apt and PackageKit based
tools? If I issue an "apt update" I see that discover sees the updated cache.
If so, I don't see why not use apt-config-auto-update, it provides a useful
feature that I think many users expect by default.
> The software-properties-kde application allows configuring the update
> interval (does nothing here...) but also allows people to edit the
> software sources installed on the system. It's basically a GUI editor
> for /etc/apt/sources.list. And that is the reason why Discover depends
> on it.
But plasma-discover already has this feature, I can edit my sources.list with
it and without software-properties-kde being installed.
> Granted, software-properties-kde has quite some flaws [...]
> Regardless of that, having it brings enough benefit to the users that
> it is included here. [...]
> The periodic updates / automatic updates function in software-properties-kde
> is broken if you use Discover, but its other functions warrant its inclusion
> still.
What benefits if I may ask? The sources.list can be edited already in
plasma-discover without s-p-kde, the periodic updates are broken if I use
discover as you say, and what remains is the possibility to choose if
automatically install security updates (but I suppose unattended-upgrades does
exactly that) or download all the updates in background or just notify about
it.
Thank you.
Regards
Francesco
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