update-engine is garbage. bug #1

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Install any app that discreetly REQUIRES update-engine 
2. Wait for gayness
3. No long own your computer

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I should decide when I want to update my software? What if I dont want to have 
software 
downloading updates in the background? What if I don't want what you think is 
the 'new' and 
'improved' version. What if I'm on an expensive connection?

Instead what happens is Google dicks me around

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Leopard 10.5.6

Please provide any additional information below.
This is bullshit, Google. Its Evil.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by fakeemp...@gmail.com on 17 Mar 2009 at 2:22

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Original comment by borkwareLLC on 17 Mar 2009 at 1:25

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While the language in the report is, um, quite to the point, I wholeheartedly 
agree
with the substance: You shall never install or update software on my machine 
without
me taking the initiative. Consequently, any such software from you, Google, 
shall
never be on my machine.

Thus, maybe no more Google Earth for me. And good riddance. As the original 
poster
wrote, it's evil.

Original comment by martin.e...@gmail.com on 23 Mar 2009 at 9:35

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I agree that someone should rename the bug. The idea is the updater shouldn't 
be a
service, it should able to be run manually or by the crontab but NOT always.

Original comment by sorin.sb...@gmail.com on 2 May 2009 at 12:22