Crippling Gnome-power-manager, Why!

[John Summerfied]

Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 00:21 -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> 
>>On 2/15/06, Jesse Keating <jkeating at j2solutions.net> wrote:
>>
>>>One (horrible) argument is that the update software (pup) asks you to
>>>reboot when you install new kernels.
>>
>>So now all package management software across all distributions has to
>>have an exhaustive list of packages that might need a full reboot to
>>operate correctly? That's a lot to ask for methinks. Especially when
>>there is no explicit way to mark a package at the packaging level in
>>either debs or rpms afaik to hint that a reboot might be needed for
>>correct operation. 
> 
> 
> On this tangent, note that with Luke's super spiffy update metadata
> integration into repomd, we're including a flag that says "this update
> needs a reboot".

If several packages may require a reboot, then this is starting to make 
backing out changes a good deal tricker than just rebooting the previous 
  good kernel.

What's proposed for this? "This goes with that" version affinity?




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