Updating when to?

[gold_finger]

I actually was not referring to the "Mark all updates" feature which would be just a(nother) manual process anyway.

I was referring to is this setting tap within Synaptic:

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1. "Display immediately" - Is that only within Synaptic or is there a system notification to pop up? I would expect "Automatically check for updates" to be a background process that runs without Synaptic being manually opened?

2. "When there are other updates" - no option available

Ok, I see what you're talking about now.

However, I really don't know what those options are supposed to do in Synaptic.  I've never paid much attention to them before.  The "Display immediately" one is kind of a mystery to me (mine has that set by default too), because I've never noticed Synaptic telling me that updates were available, even when hitting the "Reload" button before using it.  Since every distro I've used has always had a different standard way to load updates, I've never bothered investigating  the update function in Synaptic beyond the basic "Mark all upgrades" to pull them in.  Maybe someone else here already knows the particulars of that.  I don't have time to delve into it myself right now.  I'll jot this down on my list of things to check out and report back here in the future if I find some revelation that clears this up.  (It's not high on my "todo" list, so don't hold your breath -- it could be a while.)