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Re: Lazy users and updates


From: Alexei Drozdov
Subject: Re: Lazy users and updates
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2019 17:19:53 +0300

It looks like it is not a technical question at all.
Organizational may be.

You can see which packages are obsolete and to remind users to renew them.

пт, 27 дек. 2019 г. в 16:30, Todor Kondić <address@hidden>:

> Given the user-centric approach of Guix, it feels like it should be up to
> individual users of a shared system to deal with installations and the
> system updates. But, what to do when they are lazy, or too novice for
> fiddling with the command line?
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> Do I use the admin's prerogative and set their own crontabs to pull and
> "package -u" once in a while? I feel like this is overriding their free
> will for their own good.
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> Note that the question is ethical, as much as technical :)
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