Why not just have a "A new version is available" thing pop up at the top of the window (that can be closed out)? A user is not necessarily connected to fast or

Why not just have a "A new version is available" thing pop up at the top of the window (that can be closed out)? A user is not necessarily connected to fast or cheap internet at all times. Automatically downloaded updates are a bane on infrastructure at remote field stations, for example. Also, it any updating mechanism should be trivially overridable by configuration so that the system package manager can be used, if the application is installed by the system network manager. I hate it when applications manage their own updates... give me a yum repo instead.