[arch-general] Fix or not fix? install scriptlets with user handling.

Daenyth Blank daenyth+arch at gmail.com
Thu May 28 19:47:21 EDT 2009


On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 19:34, Johannes Held <mail at hehejo.de> wrote:
> I'm not really an expert on this topic...
>
> but could it be a solution to ask the user in a pre-install step?
> Like:
>        This update will change many things in the config and does this and
>        that and some other bad things. It's recommended that the service FOO
>        is restarted after update.
>        Should I restart it for you? [Y,n]
>
I don't really see how this is needed. If a user updates package X
which he knows is running a daemon, it's not hard to know whether or
not it should be restarted. We should always assume the user is
competant


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