From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Konrad Hinsen Subject: Re: Lazy users and updates Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2019 15:56:07 +0100 Message-ID: <93c355d8-8dac-2670-7b8a-9a5af8f4438b@fastmail.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:43015) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ikr2D-0006r4-W7 for help-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Dec 2019 09:56:15 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ikr2C-0007hm-UF for help-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Dec 2019 09:56:13 -0500 Received: from wout5-smtp.messagingengine.com ([64.147.123.21]:57355) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ikr2C-0007fK-G3 for help-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Dec 2019 09:56:12 -0500 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: fr-classic 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: =?UTF-8?Q?Todor_Kondi=c4=87?= , "help-guix\\@gnu.org" Am 27.12.19 um 14:29 schrieb Todor Kondić: > 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 :) Ask your users what they prefer. I'd want to handle this myself, but many of my colleagues would prefer an admin to take care of all updating. We are all different :-) Cheers, Konrad.