Suggestion: update selection in APUP
Netizen
09 Jan 2009
I've only been a participating member for a little while, but I've seen a trend where users keep trying to select ALL available updates when they run apup.exe
I was thinking, along with my previous suggestion that the self update process be hidden (automatic), how about the OS selection part be radio button type instead of checkboxes. That way users can only select one OS at a time (the recommended action as indicated by others repeatedly on various parts of the forum). The rest of the Addons etc, can remain checkboxes as they don't seem to conflict like the others do.
Comments?
I was thinking, along with my previous suggestion that the self update process be hidden (automatic), how about the OS selection part be radio button type instead of checkboxes. That way users can only select one OS at a time (the recommended action as indicated by others repeatedly on various parts of the forum). The rest of the Addons etc, can remain checkboxes as they don't seem to conflict like the others do.
Comments?
James
10 Jan 2009
Thanks for the suggestion.
This trend seems to be happening now that users have DVD drives instead of CD-ROM drives -- so now there is room to download everything and burn it all to one disk.
The conflict is almost always caused because some OS releases are not fully updated. If we cannot maintain all the releases together, we may well have to do this!
We are also working on other methods to solve this (such as common branchable script sections).
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This trend seems to be happening now that users have DVD drives instead of CD-ROM drives -- so now there is room to download everything and burn it all to one disk.
The conflict is almost always caused because some OS releases are not fully updated. If we cannot maintain all the releases together, we may well have to do this!
We are also working on other methods to solve this (such as common branchable script sections).
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