Auto-launching of applications

[Michael Vogt]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 01:49:46PM -0600, Chris Cheney wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 11:14 +0000, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> > As Siegfried has described, if you don't want to use Update Manager at
> > all, you can turn off the automatic checking. In future we will make it
> > more obvious how to get to that option.
> 
> As I noted in the bug report related to this issue we may want to have
> the apt cron job that downloads packages list be more smart about when
> it downloads them. Also, the cron job probably should be moved out of
> apt as well into possibly the update-manager package(?) and have some
> sort of network manager hook, so it doesn't get fired off when running
> on a mobile broadband connection, etc.

There is a bug open about checking for 3g connections [1] and network
changes support [2]. I do not see why the cron job needs to be moved out
of apt for this though.

Cheers,
 Michael

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-notifier/+bug/308920
[2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/jaunty/+source/update-manager/+bug/323108