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

Robin Norwood rnorwood at redhat.com
Fri May 2 11:46:09 PDT 2008


On Fri, 02 May 2008 17:29:10 +0530
Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> 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.

Hi,

As far as I can tell, the docs don't refer to the battery power
updating thing.

Thanks,

-RN

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Robin Norwood
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