[Bug 1033226] Re: No close option, only restart

[Fjodor]

First of all, Matthew, thank you for actually working on this!

However, the following "fresh" idea might be based on a lack of
knowledge about a change in the state of affairs of Linux software
(possibly attributable to sky-rocketing complexity), but except for
upgrades to large swaths of core system components - i.e. distribution-
level upgrades - I have never, for the past 14 years, seen an upgrade
that warranted forcing the user to reboot (though some can,
beneficially, prompt a recommendation of restarting a service or some
such, which dpkg and friends handle very well). GUI upgrades might very
well require a restart of X, but that's about it, so perhaps we should
work on developing functionality for dpkg and friends to queue those
pending an X restart (and then, possibly, queue core lib upgrades
pending this reboot that you seem to want to force upon people
instead)...

Thus, I can, at most, agree to a message to the effect of "Due to the
nature of the just completed upgrade, we recommend that you reboot
afterwards - or take measures equivalent to a reboot as far as <package>
is concerned."

This could, in answer to your false dilemma above, be supplemented by a
"Since your last reboot, N package upgrades have prompted such a
recommendation."

This should, of course, only be displayed in connection with upgrades
that actually prompts a recommendation for a reboot, i.e. most certainly
not at every single subsequent reboot!

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Title:
  No close option, only restart

Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  The latest updates to "software updater" in 12.10 has only given one
  option in the pop up after installing updates and that is to restart,
  where is my restart later or close option?

  This is a big usability bug!

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