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+ <B>nicolas vigier</B>
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+ <I>Wed Feb 8 19:23:58 CET 2012</I>
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+<PRE>On Wed, 08 Feb 2012, Renaud (Ron) Olgiati wrote:
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+&gt;<i> On Wednesday 08 Feb 2012 11:57 my mailbox was graced by a message from nicolas
+</I>&gt;<i> vigier who wrote:
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; It's not clear if we are talking about installing updates only, or
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; upgrading to a new version of the distribution.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> In my case, which started this thread, it was an update that hosed the system.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; Installing updates is supposed to be safe and can be allowed by default
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; with user password.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> In this case it caused KDE to crash at start of session.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; But upgrading to a new distribution is more dangerous and should
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; probably only be allowed with root password.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> Update was bad enough, and should not be allowed to user either ;-3)
+</I>
+The problem is the bad update, not that it was allowed without root
+password. Updates should not hose the system, and that's why there is a
+policy on no new versions in update when possible, and qa tests.
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