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From: fedora-devel-list-bounces(a)redhat.com [mailto:fedora-devel-list-
bounces(a)redhat.com] On Behalf Of Przemek Klosowski
Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 15:30
To: fedora-devel-list(a)redhat.com
Subject: Re: packages requiring me to reboot...
On 12/16/2009 03:43 PM, Otto Haliburton wrote:
> windows update will automatically reboot your system when it
automatically
> updates it windows tried the optional stuff but now almost every case it
requires a
> restart.
Even when it asks, it does that with a modal focus-grabbing dialog
window. I was once working on an important server, and was about to
click OK on one of my dialog boxes, when a windows update confirmation
popped up conveniently located so that my click went to IT, rebooting
the server. The queen was not amused.
HOWEVER, just because Windows suck doesn't mean that Linux should suck
too. My own preference would be a more discriminating dialog
that offers three possibilities: 'do nothing', 'bounce the
service/application' and 'reboot'.
There is always the circle jerk
argument, well linux reboots more than
windows, no, windows abandoned the mandatory restart to end up reinstating
it. Then, because windows restarts after update sucks, so linux doesn't
need to suck like windows. Rebooting after updates is not a trivial matter,
if you are a expert don't use PackageKit. Even tho it notifies you of
updates doesn't mean you need to use it, there is synaptic, yum extender,
yum, etc. none of those require you to reboot, also I don't think that
PackageKit mandates a reboot, just asks and you can cancel out of it, I
don't remember now, but I think so I know it flags the packages that cause a
restart. Anyway nothing will be solved in this thread, for those of us that
have been burned by failing to restart, and those that think that rebooting
after updates is trivial, will continue to do the things that are required
for us to be satisfied in a update.
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