On 08/02/2010 11:39 PM, Tavian Barnes wrote:
Because of KISS? Pacman is a package manager, not a system administration tool.
Imagine the story with a different daemon: SSH. You ssh into your
box, su, and pacman -Syu. Halfway through the upgrade, openssh gets
updated, which automatically restarts the server, which SIGHUPs
pacman, which is left in an inconsistent state.
Thanks,
That's all I needed to know. I'll keep a closer eye on the logs after update.
My post wasn't to imply that pacman 'should' do it, it was just meant as a query
of if it 'was' supposed to do it, it didn't :p
I agree with the philosophy of having pacman NOT do it for any packages. There
is brilliance in KISS. Once a few packages 'start' doing it, then there is a
continual open question in users minds "Does package X have a post-install that
does it -- or not?"
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