[desktop-discuss] Re: Automatic Updates for Firefox/Thunderbird for

[Richard L. Hamilton]

Probably, if you don't mind:

* software that's not part of the overall system configuration and
  thus not verifiable against the checksums in /var/sadm/install/contents
  (and elsewhere) being installed willy-nilly

* potentially each user eating up a bunch of space for a private copy
  of mozilla and thunderbird

Oh, and you _do_ have a provider of precompiled binaries for Solaris
(sparc _and_ x86 of course) that's got that feature enabled and pointed
back at some place where they can be depended on to promptly put
well-tested (notice that prompt and well-tested are perhaps incompatible!)
updates.

It's _maybe_ a good idea for software that's best installed per-account,
or on a single-user system (like most Windows and  Linux desktops),
or if updatable only by the administrator for global installations of 3rd
party software that has nothing to do with what the OS vendor provides.
But I really have trouble with the idea in the context of individual apps
provided by an OS/distribution vendor for that OS or distribution.

Not that there's anything precluding it, of course, just that it seems
a little undisciplined for the typical Big Control Freak Business application
of Solaris, buried in red tape or the fear thereof.
 
 
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