On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 09:38 -1000, Joseph Kowalski wrote: > Stephen Hahn wrote: > > I'd also like to separate the tasks that need > > to be done every reboot/reconstruction from version-specific > > transitions, which I don't believe is done in the current tool. > > > I'm behind in this discussion (so maybe I'm missing something), but isn't > "reboot" something we should strive to avoid? Sometimes its needed, but > we should do everything possible to avoid it.
Yes. If you run pkgrm/pkgadd on a live system, postrun will execute the job immediately, no reboot needed. If you install with Jumpstart or LU or other altroot installation methods, there will be a reboot at the end anyway, so no extra reboot is needed. Laca > (In particular, it seems that many of the JDS/Gnome things don't require > a reboot,... only a restart of something at the X-level or perhaps higher.) > > Are we doing enough to avoid reboots,... does this encourage it? > > - jek3 >
