Patrick Steinhardt <ps@xxxxxx> writes: > I certainly appreciate the discussion, thanks for chiming in! I'm still > not convinced that we should continue to couple auto-maintenance and > backgrounding to each other. In my opinion, this behaviour was a mistake > in the past and continues to surprise now, too. Making it an explicit > option feels more natural to me. > > That being said, when others feel strongly about this, as well, then I'm > of course happy to adapt. FWIW, I find it is a sensible approach to have a separate "run in the background" that is not strongly tied to "do your thing if you think the repository really needs it". Thanks.