On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 06:52:27AM +0200, Ola Lundqvist wrote: > On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 10:31:42PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > ...CUT... > > > > Ok, it's definitely not ideal. But the question is: what does a non-24/7 > > user > > expect cron-apt to do? > > > > I think it's really naive for a user to pretend that if you poweroff your > > computer at night and install cron-apt, cron-apt will actualy do something > > useful _and_ will not affect your use of network whatsoever. > > > > So in this situation (which, agreed, is not the best one), it all boils > > down to > > two options: > > > > - Do nothing. > > - Perform the task at the risk of affecting user. > > > > Do you really think the first is better? > > You have a second alternative and that is that the user configure the system > to do something else than the default. That is why I have documented it in > the README file. > > So yes, by default I think it is better to do nothing when a computer > is newly started than to affecting the user. I would personally be very > frustrated about it. > > I do not say that you are wrong, just that I prefer to have the default like > this. I think I will have less bug reports about it in this way, than the > other way around.
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