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Re:The Never-Updaters: Why Some People Refuse to Download Ne... by Ajay-p on Monday November 06, 2023 @02:44PM (#38167830)
I would find the option to update on selective things to be more valuable. I would happily update security-only updates, but maybe pass on others, such as updates to the UI, or general functionality of the device. What I dislike more than anything is when I am forced to update for non-security reasons; for example Microsoft products!
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Re:The Never-Updaters: Why Some People Refuse to Download Ne... by JohnFen on Monday November 06, 2023 @03:48PM (#38168777)
The biggest thing we've got wrong with the modern approach to update is, in my opinion, combining security updates with feature updates. They should be separate. You always want security updates. You may not want feature updates.
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Re:The Never-Updaters: Why Some People Refuse to Download Ne... by Gibbon1 on Monday November 06, 2023 @04:08PM (#38169039)
I've thought for a long time that it would be nice to have versioning at the function and data structure level. Not to mention tools to auto-build a wrapper around newer libraries. Even if incomplete it'd sometimes do the job.
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Re:The Never-Updaters: Why Some People Refuse to Download Ne... by hulitu on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @02:39PM (#38181728)
As far as i know, there is something like this in glibc. Is a mess. I always disabled it because it broke existing programms.
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