[packagekit] Question about offline update process

[Richard Hughes]

On 19 February 2016 at 18:06, lordofgame <lordofgameemail at web.de> wrote:
> But wouldn't it be more efficient if in step 1) it just changes the
> runlevel to "offline update mode"? Like, do a "systemctl isolate
> offline-update.target" (or whatever the target is named). In this case
> systemd would shutdown almost all system services and it would be just
> as good as a reboot.

I think the idea was that you would start with a "known good boot"
which would also allow us to do btrfs snapshotting in a easy way.
Unfortunately btrfs is just too unstable and maturing too slowly for
me to even suggest this at the moment.

Richard.