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[Alex Launi <alex.launi@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 4:03 AM, Mark Shuttleworth <mark@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Updates-on-login are interesting, but I think fatally flawed because of the
> common requirement to reboot after updates.
>

This is actually the case where update on login works best. Any other time
rebooting is totally interruption. You're working, you need to decide
whether or not rebooting is important enough, and then if you do decide to
reboot, you need to save all of your state, and actually do the deed.
Immediately after boot you don't have this problem. Instead of starting to
work and then being disturbed, you delay starting until you can really
start, without interruption.

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--Alex Launi