Comment 4 for bug 594820

Is there a bug open somewhere that puts in question the entire existance of this update script as a cronjob? Please someone direct me to it in that case.

On my laptop, where automatic updates are completely turned off it's just insane that this cronjob updates are run at all, ever. It should be run in conjunction with updating or installing a package (ie when the package list has atually changed), not at preset intervals.