packages requiring me to reboot...

[Otto Haliburton]

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> From: fedora-devel-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-devel-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of nodata
> Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 01:01
> To: Development discussions related to Fedora
> Subject: Re: packages requiring me to reboot...
> 
> Am 2009-12-17 00:08, schrieb Jeff Spaleta:
> > On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Gregory Maxwell<gmaxwell at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> Yes- users with more expertise are more likely to complain about this,
> >> but thats not reason to dismiss the issue. If there were truly a
> >> disconnect here betweens the needs of the novices and those of the
> >> expert users you could argue favouring the novices, but that just
> >> isn't applicable here.
> >
> > Uhm. am I missing something. Aren't we talking about reboot requests
> > that PK is spawning and I can choose to cancel in the UI interaction
> > because I know better instead of mandatory reboots?
> >
> > -jef
> >
> 
> No, we're talking about requiring fewer reboots for normal users.
> 
> Prompting a user like this teaches them to ignore recommendations. This
> isn't a good thing.
> 
there are no mandatory reboots in PackageKit, you are notified what packages
will cause a request to reboot and you can exit the process without
rebooting!!!!!!  Or you can remove the packages from the update processes
and install when convenient for you.
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