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Connie Sieh <[log in to unmask]>
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Connie Sieh <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:25:32 -0500
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On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Stephan Wiesand wrote:

> On Jul 28, 2009, at 20:04, Billy Crook wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 02:33, John
>> Summerfield<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>> It seems that removing this isn't so straightforward either:
>>
>> It is assumed that anyone skilled enough to safely be able to take
>> care of their own updates would know how to disable the behaviour of
>> those updates being applied automatically.
>
> +1
>
>> Those who aren't, won't, and will be better off for it.
>
> +1
>
> Connie, please defer changes in this area to SL6 at least. This has
> been SL's default behaviour, and completely reasonable IMHO, since SL3
> - and for 2.5 years  now on SL5. No point in breaking things for sites
> that adapted to the way things are in early 2007 - to please a single
> SL user having a different preference for his PC at home and speaking
> up now.

I have no intention of changing this behavior.  All I was going to do is 
see if there was a easier way to remove yumautoupdate .

-connie

>
> 	Stephan
>
> -- 
> Stephan Wiesand
>   DESY - DV -
>   Platanenallee 6
>   15738 Zeuthen, Germany
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