As I understand it, Dries wants update_status to move into core by means of a patch against system.module. I.e. make it a required part of the module system, something that can't be disabled. However, there's a debate underway on if you should be able to disable it if you really want to. I'm sympathetic to arguments for both sides of the debate, so I opened an issue about it and am encouraging people to add their thoughtful comments on the topic: http://drupal.org/node/153968 Please don't reply here, just comment in the issue: http://drupal.org/project/comments/add/153968 Thanks! -Derek (dww)