A clarrification and an apology

[Aaron Konstam]

On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 22:50 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> 
> It doesnt work well for desktop notifications. A better understanding
> of 
> the goals would help understand why the change would be made. I dont 
> quite understand why you feel its overengineered or too clever. Sure
> the 
> implementation wasnt perfect but thats a different thing.
> 
Let me explain it to you. The old crontab entry did the automatic
update. For me that is not what I want to do because things can get
updated that you don't want to have update. For example when I
reinstalled GNOME I had a problem that beagle was updated. Or a kernel
you don't want to have updated. The present system has an improvement.
You can get e-mail of the updating mistakes. Ok, by then its too late
but at least you find out.

As an alternative you can have the balloon come up interrupting your
work telling you there are updates. Maybe I did not look hard enough but
I could find no way to tell the balloon notification I did not want to
update except to wait for it to tell me what updates it had for me which
sometimes takes awhile and then hit quit. This is a very annoying
feature we can do with out. I can't imagine anyone wanting their work
interrupted with a update notification that has to be dealt. with.

Am I missing something or do you know something I have missed. 
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