John Summerfied wrote: > Downloading automatically: good time saver. > Updating automatically: invitation to Ill Fortune. In my experience the only thing likely to cause serious problems are new kernels, so I exclude=kernel* for automatic updates. But surely other problems are going to show up at some point, whether you do it automatically or not? You cannot tell beforehand if installation of a package is going to cause difficulties. Or at least I can't. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
