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Re: [trinity-users] GUI update manager

From: midi-pascal <midi-pascal@...>
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2015 20:13:19 -0400

On 15-07-07 07:07 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 July 2015 23:45:14 midi-pascal wrote:
>> This is exactly what adept does.
>> You click on the adept notifier icon when it becomes red and the adep
>> installer gui starts.
>> And by the way I never had to reboot after an update under Linux...
> Except after a kernel upgrade.
Not even! You can continue your work until you are ready to reboot - one 
year later if you want  :-)
Only a dist-upgrade forces a reboot - and you have no choice to delay it -
> Sorry.. I forgot the smiley!  I was thinking of what automatic means to The
> Other OS.  <shudder>  And I have come across someone who wanted this in
> Linux. :-?
Wow! Not a Linux aficionado for sure...
Anyway everyone has the right to reboot her computer every five minutes 
if she wants to.
Mine has been up for 285 days now... because I suffered a power failure 
last year.
Funny life!

midi-pascal

> Lisi
>> midi-pascal
>>
>> On 15-07-07 06:28 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
>>> On Tuesday 07 July 2015 23:22:52 Lisi Reisz wrote:
>>>> but an automatic
>>>> updater is almost required for two of them.
>>> By "automatic" I mean "all you have to do is click", not "takes over and
>>> updates, including rebooting, when you are in the middle of a long and
>>> very intricate piece of work, which will need restarting after the
>>> reboot".
>>>
>>> Lisi
>>>
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