Em Mon, 14 Aug 2006 18:58:53 +0900 Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu:
> Maybe a way to solve the problem would be to make clear in the package > name, documentation and popup messages that it is not a native Debian > tool? For instance, it could be called "Ubuntu update notifier for > Debian". That sounds a bit awkward to me... > In the end, it seems to me that the problem is more that the tool has > a name made only with dictionary words, which suggest that it is *the* > tool to use. In the future, there may be more update notifiers, each > with its own policy about when to reboot, when to relog, and so on, > and "update-notifier" would have an advantage over the others, which > is unfortunate because of the bad practices it promotes as you > pointed out. Actually, policy for 'when to reboot' would be done by packages. Since no packages run the 'notify-reboot-required' script today, the message would never show up. We could adopt the policy of only displaying the message on kernel upgrades, for example. See you, -- Gustavo Noronha Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://people.debian.org/~kov/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
