On Sa, 2010-10-23 at 23:27 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 23:19:39 +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> 
> > On Sa, 2010-10-23 at 22:43 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > > On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 16:02:22 +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> > > 
> > > > tags 502392 = wontfix
> > > > thanks
> > > > 
> > > Why?
> > 
> > Think of it as a temporary tag - fixing this bug requires the creation
> > of a gconf option or similar and I do not want to introduce a new option
> > during the freeze. After the squeeze release, the package should get
> > such an option, although probably after being switched to GSettings.
> > 
> I don't understand this.  Fixing this bug seems to require removing code
> that treats the 'admin' group specially.  Why is that hard?  (I must be
> missing something...)
I want to maintain at least some option to not notify every single user
on a system that updates are available if they do not have the
permissions to update. And administrators of machines with an 'admin'
group can always change /etc/xdg/autostart/update-notifier.desktop to
pass --force to update-notifier.
-- 
Julian Andres Klode  - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member

See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.





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