From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alexei Drozdov Subject: Re: Lazy users and updates Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2019 17:19:53 +0300 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37710) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ikqTI-0001yo-Ex for help-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Dec 2019 09:20:09 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ikqTH-0002hj-Ba for help-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Dec 2019 09:20:08 -0500 Received: from mail-pg1-x532.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4864:20::532]:43833) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ikqTG-0002ew-RW for help-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Dec 2019 09:20:07 -0500 Received: by mail-pg1-x532.google.com with SMTP id k197so14513202pga.10 for ; Fri, 27 Dec 2019 06:20:06 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: help-guix@gnu.org 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. =D0=BF=D1=82, 27 =D0=B4=D0=B5=D0=BA. 2019 =D0=B3. =D0=B2 16:30, Todor Kondi= =C4=87 : > 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? > > 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. > > Note that the question is ethical, as much as technical :) > > > > > > >