On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 07:28:24PM +0200, Christian Marillat wrote: > >>>> "BS" == Bart Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > BS> Is policy the one and only reason for wanting stuff? If this fixes what > BS> I hope it does, the the "need" has an "or else you may need to hard > BS> reset your machine because you can't even switch out of X" attached to > BS> it. > > I need to restart sawfish, because sawfish crash each times a user upgrade > sawfish. unstable is unstable... > > [...] > > BS> Isn't there some kind of signal that sawfish interprets as "I need to > BS> restart"? That would solve all problems. > > No, the only way is sawfish-client -f restart.
THe correct thing would be to fail if sawfish is running, in the pre-inst. Force the user to upgrade at a console. Lot's of things like XDM and GDM, do this aswell. It is the only sane way. Folks who do upgrades, are always advised to do it from a tty, and not in X, anyway. Ben -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
