Auto-launching of applications

[Alan Pope]

2009/2/23 Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu at ubuntu.com>:
> Then why not do the following?
>
> - Automatically install security updates by default.
> - Revert the update-manager prompting change.
>

Security updates automatically applied in the background to (for
example) firefox could break your currently running firefox
(foreground app). That would make users unhappy as they'd be blisfully
unaware until it's too late, when a popup tells them to restart
firefox.

Cheers,
Al.