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

[Fjodor]

Mathhew: Would it be reasonable for me to assume, then, that you will
quit the nagging if you, somehow, magically, detect that I run Ksplice?

Regardless, a very valuable part of security assessment is possible
attack vectors, and I'd be hard pressed to agree that prompting me to
restart my private, NAT'ed, desktop machine because of an obscure glibc
privilege escalation bug that requires physical  access to the machine
is the best way to go about these sort of things.

As Stefan, below, points out, there are a number of very good reasons,
usability-wise, to forgo an immediate reboot, and if the best you can
come up with in defense is what you just wrote, I do believe Microsoft
has a few positions open still, if a desire to force the end-user's hand
just happens to be you're particular fetish... If this is the case, this
sort of forcing might even be in order on that particular platform, so
how could you lose?

Apologizing in advance for my above comment, I'd like to state, more
diplomatically, that your case for immediate reboots is weak, and your
insistence on them - to the effect of forcing them upon the users who
don't happen to know of 'ps ax|grep update-manager' and a subsequent
kill is exactly the thing that we *don't* need if we are ever to gain
any significant market share in the Desktop segment.

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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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