On 08/30/2012 11:56 AM, Don Levey wrote:
Knowing that an update would invalidate an extension would in no way
prevent you from installing the update if you chose to do so. But not
knowing that one's extension will no longer work until after
installation causes some people to delay installation for longer than
necessary, until they know for certain via external sources that there
is an extension that will work. I tend to prefer information. YMMV.
Having the warnings about extensions be only an advisory, allowing you
to proceed anyway, would be better than just stopping the update because
of an extension conflict. However, Thunderbird doesn't exactly update
itself under Linux, it depends on your distro's package management
system. How would you expect yum (either directly or indirectly through
yumex or the system updater or what have you) to handle this situation?