On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 4:03 AM, Mark Shuttleworth <mark@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Updates-on-login are interesting, but I think fatally flawed because of
the common requirement to reboot after updates.
This is actually the case where update on login works best. Any other time rebooting is totally interruption. You're working, you need to decide whether or not rebooting is important enough, and then if you do decide to reboot, you need to save all of your state, and actually do the deed. Immediately after boot you don't have this problem. Instead of starting to work and then being disturbed, you delay starting until you can really start, without interruption.