packages requiring me to reboot...

[Peter Jones]

On 12/16/2009 11:43 AM, Seth Vidal wrote:
> you're an experienced user? You're comfortable knowing what does and
> what does not require a reboot? Then why are you using PK?
> 
> Disable pk and do the updates directly via yum.
> 
> Bam - no more requests to reboot.

I get what you're saying, and it's kindof a fair point, but there's also
some utility to having the system automatically, proactively notify you
of updates.

-- 
        Peter

For some reason it has always seemed to me that the term software 
engineering contains some very optimistic assumptions about the 
nature of reality.