If this is supposed to be a distro aimed at deep geeks then I have no
issue with the behaviour. But it isn't. There were two problems, both
of which can be fixed and would make the experience better. The first
is that different terminology is used ("samba" vs "Folder sharing").
The second is that I had already explicitly disabled Folder
Sharing/samba via the Ubuntu administrator tools. The pam update code
completely ignored that. The dialog says "restart" yet at least one of
the services was not running and had been disabled. I do not think it
is unrealistic for the update code to take note of my previous choices
and current state, and not include samba in the list (or anything else
that isn't running and is disabled). The goal of the restarts is to
ensure that the version of pam just removed is not used and only the
newly installed one is, and not cause "collateral damage".
In order to answer the pam upgrade dialog, I certainly do think it is
ridiculous to have to memorize every administrative action I have made
in the past, have to go and translate short names into descriptive ones
(how many people know what avahi does?), and then check to see if I
previously disabled the service, for each and every one listed.
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(gutsy) package installation doesn't honour service settings
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/138955
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