> Out of curiousity, has any put any thought into some automated method > or hook for allowing restarting of rc-scripts on upgrade/re-emerge of > a package? > > Other question is if any such hook is even needed. > So... thoughts? I don't really have any input on it, aside from I'd > like to gather what people want/think would be useful.
Another good idea, would be "pending jobs" list. Many ebuilds provide imports instructions like "you can now delete this or that config-file" or like "you must immediatly run this or that". These usually scroll by while there're nobody watching the screen and/or they cannot be read completely, since they scroll away too fast. Apropos config-files: what about config-files that are provided by the old-version of an ebuild but have been moved or removed by the new version? etc-update doesn't know about them. So /etc/ will be full of useless config-files after some time. I'd consider automatic restarting a less important problem.
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