Hello,
"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de> skribis:
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> When installing Guix System from the iso image, users should be told> to pull and reconfigure regularly. Even though it is mentioned in the> manual, not everyone reads manuals. I believe Guix’ target users> include inexperienced users who do not know that they should update> and upgrade regularly. Therefore the installer should tell users how> to do so and that it is important and perhaps what to do if things> break.
The ‘guix’ command itself tells you to do so. But of course, if younever run ‘guix’, you never see that message.
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> Of course, some users still won’t update and they should have the> liberty to decide for themselves, but some users just forget to> update. Ubuntu defaults to automatic updates, which slow down the> machine and annoy users. Still, maybe there should be notifications> like a cron job invoking libnotify’s notify-send.
Sounds like something we can do.
Ultimately though, what can we do for users who do not read the manualand do not run ‘guix’ either? Would a notification really help?
Longer-term I think we should have an unattended upgrade service, and itshould probably be part of ‘%desktop-services’.
Thoughts?
Ludo’.