Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 15:07:50 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: "Jack Velte" <jackv@earthling.net>, <advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG>, "phil grainger" <freebsd@pronet.net.au> Subject: Re: autoupdate binaries transparently Message-ID: <v0401170bb1a72c280bf3@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <01bd95da$3e766e80$e701aace@eliot.pacbell.net>
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At 1:15 AM -0700 6/12/98, Jack Velte wrote: >> try ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/news ... >> you fought long and hard to get it ... >> may as well take advantage of it ! > > how impossible would it be to auto-update a user's binary > installations over the net? that would be a nice feature. It's also a little scary. Microsoft is starting to do that now, and I can't help thinking "but what if I don't *want* the version that you want me to be running?". Or "Sure, *you* think the new version is a bug-fix, but installing it will break some other program for me, and I don't need your damn bug fix right now, thank you very much!". I understand that might be a pretty useful service, but if done it needs to be thought out carefully... --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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