Power-off stupidity remains in Gnome 3

[Alan Cox]

On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 11:04:15 +0200
Olav Vitters <olav at vitters.nl> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 04:35:50AM -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> > Or are you saying that extensions.gnome.org has the ability to interface
> > with the package manager?. ;)
> 
> In GNOME 3.6 the extensions will update automatically. This was not done
> before on purpose (fear of bugs, breaking stuff, etc.. best to start off
> with manual updates).
> 
> extensions.gnome.org is like Firefox extensions.. they don't show up in
> a package manager.

Neither of which make large system administrators very happy on the whole.

Any automatic update scheme paints a very very large target on the site
supplying updates.

That however is a matter of ensuring a global disable is a feature of the
configuration that is easy for an admin to use (easier than firewalling
gnome.org to stop it)

Alan