On Samstag, 30. Mai 2009 15:37 Dan McGee wrote:
I think I can safely speak for most of the developers when I say Arch will never get in the business of restarting daemons. Ever. If we do it is a bug, because the implications of it are just too great. Think about upgrading the httpd package on a relatively high-traffic site (e.g. archlinux.org). Think we want the webserver to just restart whenever it wants? Now do the same with xinetd, mysql, and you start to see huge problems.
I understand what you mean because i run a server at home and therefore i know about such possible problems. I'm only wondering that everybody think he is on the safe side that you don't restart it as a rule in every case. At example if the package is a daemon without any dependence to another one this is only defering a possible problem in the future to the next reboot, not more and for me not better. But i don't want to say that you have to change this because for a single daemon i would say that this is possible but for a combination of them as you said this is too much work for a problem who could (and should) be solved from the user. See you, Attila