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

[Allan McRae]

Jan de Groot wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-05-30 at 08:37 -0500, 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.
>>     
>
> To process a kernel update, your system should be rebooted too. Should
> we do that from post_upgrade also? :P
>
> I agree with Dan here. I don't like packages restarting or stopping crap
> behind my back. Since we do not have configuration file merging
> integrated in pacman, I also see no way to do this in a good fashion.
> Let's say you upgrade apache 1.3 to 2.2, after which the configuration
> scheme has changed completely. Just stop the old apache, install apache
> 2.2, install a shitload of pacnew files, start apache and it fails and
> won't come up again until the administrator updates all configs. Compare
> this to the case where apache will keep running until the next run of
> logrotate where it will crash then.

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