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<H1>[Mageia-discuss] mageiaupdate and the list of updates</H1>
<B>TJ</B>
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<I>Mon Jul 4 04:13:12 CEST 2011</I>
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<PRE>On 07/03/2011 09:59 PM, Ahmad Samir wrote:
><i> On 4 July 2011 03:05, TJ<<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">andrewsfarm at gmail.com</A>> wrote:
</I>>><i> On 07/03/2011 04:51 AM, Doug Laidlaw wrote:
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> On Sun, 3 Jul 2011 06:37:09 PM <A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">mageia-discuss-request at mageia.org</A> wrote:
</I>>>>><i>
</I>>>>><i> So, not upgrading isn't an option? Saying no isn't possible? I can't
</I>>>>><i> just do it later?
</I>>>>><i>
</I>>>>><i> --
</I>>>>><i> He's just a politician trying to save both his faces...
</I>>>>><i> ----------------------
</I>>>>><i> Mageia release 1 (Official) for x86_64
</I>>>>><i> 2.6.38.7-desktop-1.mga x86_64
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> This thread started because somebody was too lazy to enter his password
</I>>>><i> before
</I>>>><i> seeing the list of updates. The above comment suggests that the tone of
</I>>>><i> the
</I>>>><i> thread never got above that level.
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> Does anybody know why the thread is continuing?
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> Doug.
</I>>>><i>
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> I don't understand it either, Doug. If he doesn't want to enter a password,
</I>>><i> all he has to do is set it that way in MCC.
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> Personally, I think he's idiotic. Let just anybody do updates? Not me.
</I>>><i> Mageia, like Mandriva, sets the update password to the user password. One of
</I>>><i> the first things I do is set it to the root password.
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> TJ
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</I>><i>
</I>><i> FWIW, I think discussions should be kept polite and cordial, calling
</I>><i> each other names isn't the right way to go.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Also reading misc's email, other, more popular/widely-used,
</I>><i> applications do it that way, only ask for the password when actually
</I>><i> downloading/installing the updates, not to just display the list of
</I>><i> available updates. That's a valid enhancement request, IMHO.
</I>><i>
</I>Apologies. I left out the word "being" in the first sentence of the last
paragraph. I didn't mean to insult anybody.
FWIW, I have been known to be idiotic from time to time, more often than
I should be, and I appreciate it when somebody points it out - as you
did *this* time.
TJ
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