Re: package enhancement - auto check for updates

[Stefan Monnier]

> 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