Re: package enhancement - auto check for updates

[Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am@gmail.com>]

Such a feature would also benefit from having package.el do the url
stuff asynchronously to prevent hanging the interface.

Still, even without that, a package-autoupdate-mode would be very nice.

2015-02-06 13:21 GMT-02:00 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>:
>> As an old-time emacs user, I'm delighted with the new package
>> features.  But one thing lacking, I still have to manually check for
>> updates from time-to-time.  It would be great to have an automatic
>> check that would notify the user of available updates.
>
> I'd accept a patch which does that.
>
> Note that I definitely do not want Emacs's default behavior to include
> automatically contacting some remote host on a regular basis.  So such
> a (mis)feature would be disabled by default.
>
>
>         Stefan
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