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

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

An update never "forces" you to restart the OS. But when there is a
security update for a component that Ubuntu does not have the technology
to restart in-place (the kernel, glibc, etc), for as long as you don't
restart, you are at just as much risk as if you hadn't installed the
security update at all. (This is why Oracle sells Ksplice, for example.)
So it's just as important to get you to restart as it was to prompt you
about the update to begin with. That updates requiring restart aren't
flagged ahead of time is bug 255443, and bug 802065 suggests a way of
making the restarts quicker.

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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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