[packagekit] license handling

[Stanislav Visnovsky]

Dňa Sunday 06 April 2008 03:55:38 Justin Haygood ste napísal:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Matthias Clasen" <matthias.clasen at gmail.com>
> To: "PackageKit users and developers list"
> <packagekit at lists.freedesktop.org>
> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 9:52 PM
> Subject: Re: [packagekit] license handling
>
> > On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com>
> >
> > wrote:
> >> On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 6:54 PM, Klaus Kaempf <kkaempf at suse.de> wrote:
> >>  >  So please allow the license prompt when updating packages.
> >>  >  Without it, PackageKit might not be usable for openSUSE.
> >>
> >>  We just cannot (and will not) do the EULA on upgrade - what if there
> >>  is no user present and it's automatic and unattended?
> >
> > What happens to unattended updates if the policy requires the user to
> > enter a password ?
> > I guess the simplest answer here would be an update that requires
> > user-interaction fails when run unattended. Not the nicest user
> > experience, but hey, they chose to install that proprietary stuff...
>
> openSUSE doesn't prompt licenses for updates, just new installations.

No, this is not true. See Klaus' comment. Some security fixes of 3rd party 
software can be done only by version update (sometimes major version update)
:((

Stano