Updates-testing on firstboot

[dragoran dragoran]

On 4/19/07, Chris Brown <snecklifter at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> Following a discussion on whether to move to 2.6.21 for FC6, Dave Jone's
> made what I believe to be rather a good suggestion, namely offering
> updates-testing as an option on first-boot - probably at the Additional CD's
> stage. Dave has suggested "Would you like to test experimental updates?".
> Possible caveat here.
>
> Now I realise _additional_ options at install is not possibly what people
> want but thought I'd punt it out seeing as we're all not doing anything
> important at the moment :) Pros and Cons:
>
> + Updates-testing gets advertised and used more for its intended purpose
> + We get a middle ground between rawhide and updates
> + We catch silly errors with packaging etc
>
> - Another option to confuse, befuddle and otherwise annoy the fledgling
> user (I'm playing devil's advocate here)
>
> Well?


I agree but  warn the user that it might be broken, blow up his box etc.
so that only users who know what there are doing enable it.

Chris
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