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Robin Cornelius wrote: > > > If you manually install software you must manually upgrade it. Of course Thunderbird and Mozilla are exceptions, because they auto-update. Although I have used a Mozilla Firefox on a GNU/Linux desktop, the Debian package is better integrated into the desktop in little ways, and is likely to give you less problems long term, I suspect the same is true for Ubuntu packages, indeed I'd expect them to share patches at the very least. Of course having every program doing its own updates is a security risk as; 1) you are less likely to spot one failing (compared to say a routine general update like cron-apt. 2) the program much have permission to update itself, which suggests it isn't properly secured, or has a mechanism to escalate its privileges (a notoriously problematic area of computer security). 3) if it only updates when it runs, it will slow you down unnecessarily.
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