Re: [Utopia] Debian/Ubuntu bug fixes for gnome-volume-manager

["John (J5) Palmieri" <johnp redhat com>]

On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 18:05 +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:

> 04_reconnect_on_dbus_exit.patch:
>   - Reconnect to dbus after restarting dbus and hal, instead of just
>     crashing.
>   - Important in package-based system when you want to continue to use
>     your Gnome session while doing a system upgrade.

If this can be handled sanely then great.  There has been a conclusion
drawn that for a lot of situations this is a hard problem to solve.  It
is safer to consider D-Bus being like the kernel.  If you upgrade it you
don't get the new version until you reboot (e.g. don't restart the bus
on upgrades).  There are issues like you can't restart any running
session bus and you don't even know when libraries will sync up so you
might end up being kicked off the bus anyway.
 
-- 
John (J5) Palmieri <johnp redhat com>