On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 17:56:31 -0500, Colin Walters wrote: >> > There's so >> > many complicated issues in it, and it'll be a rarely-tested code path. >> > Right now it's a bug that the Fedora D-BUS and NetworkManager RPM >> > scripts restart after a package upgrade. >> > >> > You should just have to reboot, IMO. >> >> I hope this is a joke. >> If not, then this sounds a lot like MS Windows. > > Not everything Windows does is bad.
I totally agree here, but let's see the good things, not the reboots that is so famous for. I don't want to end up restarting my linux because I've changed my IP address. (I'm exaggerating here, but I'm scared that people might get used to rebooting linux instead of understanding/fixing the real problem, and win95 actually had this "feature") > >> And nowadays, to reboot a FC4 takes ages (far more than MS windows), so >> let's try to decrease the number of reboots. > > Totally agreed! So let's spend time fixing that bug. People are already > working on it. > >> It is enough that we need to reboot after a kernel upgrade, please don't >> make us reboot after upgrading any other package x,y,z. > > No one is suggesting you be forced to reboot after upgrading immediately. > But in order to get the upgrade functionality, yes, you will have to > reboot. The way Windows XP security updates work is actually really nice; > if you're not using the computer it just reboots it for you, otherwise it > gives you a notification that you should reboot at some point soon. Some people really hate this behavior. > Hopefully we'll get notifications landed for GNOME 2.12 and we'll be able > to do something similar. This technology will make it's way in RHEL some day, so I am afraid that these reboots will be propagated in the server area. What happened to uptime of years I used to have in the past ? I don't want to make pointless critics, but while evolving, we should retain linux strengths, uptime being one of them. Thanks, Paul _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list