James Westby wrote: > On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 07:27 +0200, Jan Claeys wrote: >> Maybe delaying upgrades until shutdown *is* the right >> solution? > > There are a couple of other issues with that. > > 1. The upgrades may need some feedback from the user, but the user has > just declared that they would like to leave the computer. > > 2. What do you do if the upgrade fails? The system is in an > inconsistent state, so immediately rebooting may not be wise, > but the computer was instructed to reboot, so staying on would > be surprising.
Personally, I think _shutdown_ is absolutely the worst time to do upgrades. When I am shutting down I want the system _off_. Typically, I only do shutdowns when there's some pressing need to reboot! The other 99 times out of a hundred, I hibernate - in which case the upgrade is either not going to get done, or you're going to interrupt my attempt to hibernate - and it _still_ won't get done, because it invariably means I'm moving the laptop and it won't be able to connect to the Internet. -- derek -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss