On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 8:51 PM, Lars E. Pettersson wrote:

Why? For the same reason we have notifications.

Notifications aren't the same UI as email. Even a cursory guide on UI would tell you that.

OK, one example:

A user might install yum-cron to update the system

Bad example. Non technical users don't install yum-cron.

Rahul