>Casper.Dik at Sun.COM writes: >> >On 9/14/07, Bart Smaalders <bart.smaalders at sun.com> wrote: >> >> In most cases, these sorts of actions can be postponed until either the >> >> service is started (for a simple case) or the machine is rebooted. Very >> >> few third-party packages should need to perform unique actions before >> >> the machine reboots. >> > >> >Not at all. Are you saying that we should expect to reboot >> >our systems whenever we add or remove software? >> >> >> All for Windows compatibility :-) > >Heh. > >No, I think I'd expect that the packaging system would cause those >processes to run immediately (rather than waiting for reboot) when the >system image being acted on is actually the running system.
I'd expect that too (I think that is pretty much a hard requirement) Casper
