On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 19:34, Johannes Held <mail@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm not really an expert on this topic... > > but could it be a solution to ask the user in a pre-install step? > Like: > This update will change many things in the config and does this and > that and some other bad things. It's recommended that the service FOO > is restarted after update. > Should I restart it for you? [Y,n] > I don't really see how this is needed. If a user updates package X which he knows is running a daemon, it's not hard to know whether or not it should be restarted. We should always assume the user is competant