Confusion about qubes-dom0-update

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Error on updating multiple templates (Failed to copy Salt configuration)

They’re only a security risk in the sense that if you always use them instead of Salt updates, you might miss out on special security updates that can be delivered only via Salt, which is somewhat rare relative to routine updates. They are not dangerous per se. In other words, on a normal, working system that performs Salt updates regularly, also using the direct update commands does no harm.