Using plymouth to install updates at startup time

[Frederic Crozat]

2012/6/6 Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie>:
> 'Twas brillig, and Richard Hughes at 03/06/12 15:17 did gyre and gimble:
>> On 3 June 2012 15:08, Ray Strode <halfline at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Oh right, the initrd already started it presumably.  Though, you'll
>>> want to make sure it still gets started on systems that don't have
>>> initrds too:
>>
>> Hmm, I hadn't thought about this, thanks.
>>
>>> Well, I had assumed there wouldn't be a reboot, but instead a
>>> systemctl isolate system-update.target
>>
>> Nahh, Lennart wanted a full reboot so we can start afresh with new
>> library versions, directory locations and that kind of thing.
>
> A reboot after updates makes sense I guess, but is it 100% required that
> there is a reboot *before* the updates? Can they not be applied on
> shutdown or restart instead?

(not sure it is the right list to discuss this ;)

Applying update at shutdown / restart is one of the main complain for
Windows users, since Vista, because it slows down their computer,
which is extremely frustrating when
they NEED to leave with their laptop and can't move it because "it is
applying an update while shutting down".

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Frederic Crozat