Comment 7 for bug 1646886

You guys control this and can do what you think is best, but the reason I noted this as a 'bug' way back in 2016 is because I had a HD failure and only was made aware of it when i ran smartmontools from cli. I would think that an average user would install this package (smart-notifier) and expect that something wold notify them if there is a problem logged in smartmon. Previously notification was in the UI in the header and also as a message in the notification area. This was, IMO, a 'good idea' which is why I used to always install it. My thought is that if the only way this package 'notifies' is by emailing root, that it fails as a notifier and should be removed. Average users are told to not log in as root unless they are fixing something. Advanced warning of HD failure should be included as part of the base system, IMO, but if not and this package is installed, it should, at least, 'notify' the users of the system that there is a problem. It used to do this.