On Friday, July 04, 2014 17:28:05 Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, > > Adam Borowski: > > There was enough trouble when udev needed an in-lockstep upgrade with the > > kernel a few releases back. If systemd components are going to need such > > forced reboots on a repeated basis, I don't like where this is going. > > systemd and its components can re-exec themselves, that's not the problem. > > The problem is that along with systemd we're changing a lot of the > supporting infrastructure ("we" here is Upstream, for the most part).
Upstream of what? > Keeping old low-level interfaces around just to avoid logging out or > rebooting may or may not be something we can do easily. While I'll > certainly be happy to be able to dist-upgrade without a subsequent reboot, > if it turns out that this is not going to be easy to achieve then so be it. > > For Zurg (Jessie+1), we're likely to switch to Wayland. How do you plan to > do *that* without forcing at least a re-login? Just because it can't be avoided completely, doesn't mean it shouldn't be minimized. Scott K -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/9964234.g258putz8I@scott-latitude-e6320