On Thursday, 5 July 2018 8:07:15 PM AEST Laurent Bigonville wrote: > You also have checkrestart that is way less aggressive but that needs to > be run by hand after an update. > > I believe that lot of administrator would prefer that solution
I wouldn't be too sure... I think restart suggestion should be aggressive.
> These days unattended-upgrades package is installed by default, and if
> I'm understanding properly in this case needrestart will just list the
> packages that needs to be restarted an nothing else.
Just like checkrestart, right? If for unattended upgrades needrestart behaves
identical to checkrestart then why swap one thing for another?
> The problem you are mentioning will persist.
Little can be done for unattended upgrades but at least needrestart relieves
the problem for interactive upgrades which is exactly what users seem to want
and what I think it should be.
What practical problem do you think needrestart have? It seems harmless to
me... Did I miss something?
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