On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 6:54 AM, Daenyth Blank <daenyth+arch@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 05:28, ludovic coues <couesl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Maybe that a PKGBUILD runned solution, could allow to set some >> pacman's config for this. >> Like a field " auto-restart_daemon = 1", wich you can set to 0, if you >> don't want. Same for adding user. >> >> If the field is to 1, pacman manage it by itself, if it's set to 0, >> pacman just print warning informing the user that he need to apply >> change to the daemon, i.e. restart it. >> > > -1. Pacman is a package manager, not a system administration tool. I think I can safely speak for most of the developers when I say Arch will *never* get in the business of restarting daemons. Ever. If we do it is a bug, because the implications of it are just too great. Think about upgrading the httpd package on a relatively high-traffic site (e.g. archlinux.org). Think we want the webserver to just restart whenever it wants? Now do the same with xinetd, mysql, and you start to see huge problems. -Dan
