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You can set up a Cron job or systemd timer for the root account to run that command regularly, if it is a non-interactive command!
System updates aren't something I'd really trust to be non-interactive.
I've never had to interact with system updates in Linux distros beyond saying "yes I want to update" in the last decade. If I didn't want to, there's usually a force update flag available to skip the asking part. Would I do this for a server without backups? Absolutely not. For home use? I'll roll the dice; I have backups even if there's a couple days of shipping time to get all 12TB mailed to me.
Of course, major distribution releases are a different monster. Fortunately, I don't deal with those often and when I do, I migrate instead of upgrade.
Ah, I forget sometimes that I'm in a general linux community and not the arch community.
I run arch, btw.
Which I think is why I have a different attitude about this, the rolling release system can occasionally cause snags. I haven't had any of the major chaos that other people will warn you about, but I have had some oddities relating to shifting dependencies or upstream changes. I've had one or two things refuse to update citing mandatory manual intervention.