John Goerzen wrote: > Think about it -- if you manage dozens, hundreds, or thousands of Debian > machines -- few of which even have a monitor -- how useful is this? > > Debian is all about not making assumptions like this. If you want this > feature, you are free to install it. Debian is capable of figuring out whether it's being installed with a monitor[1] at install time; if it is then update-notifier will be installed (in etch, as part of the gnome-desktop task, thanks to the work of Stratus). It's a fallacy to think that just because Debian wants to support everyone that we can't target common sets of users, like desktop users, and support them well, with polish. -- see shy jo [1] gross oversimplification
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