On 07/31/2013 11:30 AM, Vincent Liggio wrote:
> How is having it on by default a safe setting? Any sysadmin running
> Linux should know how to update. SL is not a release for your average
> user, it's for the scientific community. If I wanted an OS designed for
> non-admins, I'd run Ubuntu.
You assume only knowledgeable sysadmins run RHEL/derivatives. I fully
disagree.
> And there are bugs in various software out there (such as ypbind) which
> are not fixed in the current release and so having autoupdate step on
> critical packages is bad.
Agree, it can (and has) caused headaches. But do I think it is worse
than never updating? No.
Jeff