On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 9:03 PM, Lars E. Pettersson wrote:

We have notifications to notify the user. The mail sent to root is (in most cases) to notify the user. The UI differ, but it is used, in this context, for more or less the same thing, notifying the user.

Sure but context in which they are used are very different. If you really want to know the difference in detail, I recommend you get a good UI book. My suggestion would be "Don't make me think!" by Steve Krug.

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

Why not? The might...

In that case, I wouldn't consider them non technical users. Like I said, your notion of what non technical users seems pretty skewed. Non technical users don't care about automated updates on the command line and certainly don't try to resolve failures in third party repos.

Rahul