Ansgar wrote: >On 09/11/2014 15:30, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >> Please push back hard against this - the offline-updates "feature" is >> a joke. Let's not try to emulate the worst bits of Windows any more >> please. > >Well, online updates do break software from time to time on my system. >For system services they usually work fine as they can be restarted by >the upgrade process, however user applications break... > >I think it's not realistic to expect upstreams to support online updates >for every application. Once you have plugins or external data, it's hard >to keep working properly after an upgrade. > >And at least I would prefer offline updates over my web browser crashing >or shell completion breaking (until re-exec of the shell to be >compatible with plugins).
I would much prefer to not have to reboot the entire system and lose all state for the sake of a couple of userland application updates. If things don't work, file bugs. If the latest shiny desktop stuff can't cope with re-exec etc. well, then I'm glad to not be using it. :-/ -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com You raise the blade, you make the change... You re-arrange me 'til I'm sane... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/e1xs5dw-0001og...@mail.einval.com
