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by dathinab 1001 days ago
I think they know about that.

But it's basically similar to running a "update" of you distros package manager automatically on the fly. (okay it's better due it having a smaller surface and somewhat better per package update schema controls)

And some people argue that you must not do so as it might unexpected subtle break your system.

And other say you must because (especially security) updates must be done.

And the truth is probably in between. (Like auto updates with self test and rollback, which in complex systems isn't trivial at all.)

Anyway especially for using local user space toolings on my computer I 100% will enable it. I mean iff it stops working I can fix it but if not (the normal case) it's low maintenance. Perfect.

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> But it's basically similar to running a "update" of you distros package manager automatically on the fly.

Which is a thing now. My openSUSE MicroOS/Aeon machines default to running transactional-update every day, and updates take effect on the next reboot. Given that MicroOS is allegedly to SUSE as CoreOS is to Red Hat, I suspect the latter has similar defaults.