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Originally Posted by Backdraft
Apologies, I thought what OP meant was an automatic, background auto-update feature ala Steam where there is no user interaction needed.
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The STEAM program itself has the worst kind of auto update.
1, it decides to run whether you like it or not.
2. in order to complete update it restarts itself - bye bye workflow
3. there is no rollback to earlier version
all it needs is the final Microsoft style icing on the cake ( as seen on xbox live ) where the program says - OK you can decline to update me but then I'm not going to let you play anymore.
STEAM updates games whether you want it to or not, usually a good thing but not always as games publishers release bugged updates.
another horror story example: I own a program called guitarpro which lost a feature a really liked, a few updates back. ( color printing) - there is no rollback; the tech support say sorry but that feature has gone forever, and the software has limited activations so I cannot easily uninstall + reinstall to go back to the original non-updated version that I liked ( I have it on a backup PC, luckily, but it is inconvenient to have to print from there every time
now calibre's updates are good quality but even so an occasional bug slips through. so please let's not enforce updates