[packagekit] running without a head via cron

[Richard Hughes]

On 3/7/08, Sebastian Heinlein <glatzor at ubuntu.com> wrote
> What you perhaps want is a Nagios plugin. There is no need to rewrite
> all of the notification handling. I use the APT check plugin on many of
> my servers. So you could report security updates as critical and normal
> updates as a warning.

Sounds like a good idea to me.

Richard