[packagekit] Detecting when we need to restart the session
James Antill
james at fedoraproject.org
Tue Oct 14 09:09:28 PDT 2008
On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 16:32 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > Ideally IMO this should be in the packages, in the same way
> > bind/apache-httpd does service condrestart ... firefox/openoffice could
> > do a similar thing.
>
> Ohh, I'm not actually restarting the binary -- I'm just warning the user
> that they need to restart the session to get the effect of the updates
> they just did. Maybe we should only use this heuristic if the update is
> a security update.
Ahh, my bad, I thought you were sending a signal that would ask the
applications to restart themselves. If it's just a message, then ignore
my ramblings ... I don't think it's a big deal to have it be GUI/PK
only.
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James Antill <james at fedoraproject.org>
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