Comment 11 for bug 125283

John,

> What exactly do you mean Suse has this feature?

I was at a Christian Game Developer's Conference in Portland last week and
saw one fellow who was running Suse on his laptop. I mentioned this thread
regarding Ubuntu updates. He said Suse is almost exactly the same as Ubuntu
and it allowed him to disable updates. He didn't show me how it was done,
so I assume it was part of the Suse setup.

That is exactly what I mean as I have zero personal experience with Suse. I
also have no idea what you mean by "repos" -- for me the term is associated
with collection agencies. In my opinion there should be a way to separate
ones' system from being part of the Ubuntu developer's testbed. I would be
happy to live with the original install of Ubuntu 7 until Ubuntu 8 is
released.

I moved from Ubuntu 6 to Ubuntu 7 when 6 was getting too buggy although I'm
not sure if the loss of features was due to updates or a virus. U7 has
acquired one bug I noticed due to updates. I simply want a guarantee of no
new bugs due to updates. Stopping updates is a guarantee. On the other
hand, the "expense" of feature loss vs. the "expense" of so much email
discussion about it is leading me to an "I don't care anymore" position on
the issue.

Kirk

On 7/23/07, John Vivirito <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> Kirk maybe suse does have it but Ubuntu is no where near the same as
> Suse. We merge features and apps from Debian. Disabling 3rd party repos
> and backport repos is ablet o be done in Ubuntu. What exactly do you
> mean Suse has this feature? Ubuntu doesnt support packages/apps in 3rd
> party repos at all that is up to 3rd party repo maintainers (if that is
> what you meant.
>
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> No "No Updates" Choice
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