pup - to restart or not to restart :)

Andrew Farris lordmorgul at gmail.com
Fri Mar 14 09:31:59 UTC 2008


Valent Turkovic wrote:
> http://www.uploadgeek.com/uploads456/0/Package%20Updater%20-%20restart.png
> 
> I made a mockup of an idea that would be nice to implement in pup.
> Pup has information which packet after install requires restart of
> your system and which don't. Only choice now is to dissable package by
> package if you don't wan't to install packages that require a restart
> so that gave me this idea.
> 
> What is your oppinion about it?

Well.. technically none of them require restart. ;)  It might be reasonable to 
'suggest' restarting a machine after a kernel, but that dialog as it is would be 
pretty misleading for every package except the kernel, imo.

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