Is a restart REALLY required after an upgrade?

[Derek Broughton]

Andrew Zajac wrote:

> 
> The "restart required" notification was not created because of shoddy
> packaging.  There are reasons for starting and stopping services.
> 
> Where do you expect the webmin package maintainer to flash the "restart
> required" icon, if you are not running X?

I can't quite see where this is going.  You're talking about two entirely
different things.  In the first place, if you're not running X, you won't
get a "restart required" notification even if you upgrade a kernel.  In
fact, you won't get it if you use apt-get or aptitude to do your upgrades.

Alternately, I would expect there's some sort of API so that the webmin
maintainer _could_ signal a "restart required" notification if he desired.
-- 
derek