Comment 28 for bug 301189

As already stated several times, completely disabling the built in updater is not really a sensible solution. If your definitive answer is to not use the package manager version if you want auto updates, then you really need to think about what package management is meant to do.

The whole reason for package management is so that you know what is installed where and how, so that you can keep track of the hundreds of things installed. If you are honestly recommending not using the package manager version then you're making peoples lives unnecessarily hard. Why should I have to remember which programs need to be manually looked after because the package manager version is pointlessly crippled.