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From: "Oliver Grawert via snapcraft.io" <forum@forum.snapcraft.io>
Subject: [snapd] Re-visiting update control on the desktop
To: bronger@physik.rwth-aachen.de
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2021 07:38:34 +0000

ogra
October 4
imoutthiswasamistake:

This is literally a topic about whether or not the snap desktop client should allow people to disable automatic updates.

please re-read alans original post at the top, it is about exposing the features from:

Managing updates | Snapcraft documentation

Snaps are containerised software packages that are simple to create and install. They auto-update and are safe to run. And because they bundle their dependencies, they work on all major Linux systems without modification.

to desktop users, nothing more. fundamental changes in behaviour of snaps need to be discussed for snapd itself, not in a desktop integration thread. there are already existing threads (linked above from several posts) that discuss this.

this thread is not about permanently disabling updates but about refresh.timer, refresh.hold, refresh.metered and refresh.retain exposure via the UI plus desktop notification integration of snapd.

and again: regarding your “example” that snapd slows/stalls shutdown, pretty please file a bug or open a thread in the snapd category and provide the logs you get asked for, since it is a bug.

this is unexpected behaviour that needs to be fixed.


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imoutthiswasamistake
October 4
This is literally a topic about whether or not the snap desktop client should allow people to disable automatic updates. I provided a concrete example of how I had a problem with an automatic update. How is that unrelated? Actually, on second thought, I don’t care. I’m out. I shouldn’t have made an …

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