Re: [Evolution] stability/Reid

[Reid Thompson <reid thompson ateb com>]

On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 14:50 -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
> Anyway, FYI nothing happens _automatically_; what happens is when
> there
> are packages available for upgrade you get an icon in your
> notification
> area[*] which you can select to open the update manager.  You can then
> choose whether to install the new packages, or not, or even install
> only
> some of them.  The package manager won't let you install an
> inconsistent
> set of packages.
^^^^^^^
what he said
> -----
> [*] Starting with Ubuntu 9.04 you don't get the notification icon by
> default; instead your update manager opens itself.  It checks daily
> for
> security updates and weekly for non-security-related updates.
> Personally I really don't like this--for one thing the damn update
> manager always pops itself BEHIND all my other windows so I never see
> it) so I reconfigured it to work the old way. 

if you recall offhand the steps, i'd appreciate a quick posting of how
to configure it to work the old way..  if you have to think more than a
min for the steps don't bother, i'll figure it out/google it

thanks,
reid