[packagekit] Remove the option to install updates automatically when on battery power

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Fri May 2 04:59:10 PDT 2008


Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 15:59 -0400, Robin Norwood wrote:
>> Does anybody see a real use for the 'install updates automatically
>> even when on battery power' checkbox in gpk-prefs?  At least in
>> yum/rpm-land, this is a great way to end up with a corrupt yum cache
>> and/or rpmdb.  I can't think of any valid usecase where someone would
>> want to risk this with automatic updates.  Can we just get rid of the
>> preference completely?
>>
>> You can still install updates manually when on battery power, of
>> course
>> (PK warns you, but will let you do it if you want).
> 
> Yes, nuke the UI, but keep the gconf key I think. Want me to do this?

Please update the documentation too if you are making UI changes.

Rahul



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