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Yay, work around forced restarts.
Authored by: Peganthyrus on Mar 05, '02 01:28:35PM
While, as the editor notes, it's a good idea to restart when an installer wants you to, sometimes it's a pain in the butt - like if you're installing several packages, all of which require a restart to do their job. Who wants to wait a few minutes for a reboot only to do something else that'll also want to restart?

At least X doesn't seem to let all-elbows installers shut down every other program while they do their job. I always want to smack people who do that.

Now, if only there was a way to deny installers from doing the lengthy task of 'optimizing system performance' to do it manually after several installs... I'm thinking of reinstalling my X from scratch due to some persistent troubles, and I dread the thought of all that optimizing.

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Yay, work around forced restarts.
Authored by: Dephex Twin on Mar 05, '02 04:22:28PM

Even then, you need to be wary. The only time I've had OS X totally crash was when the system locked hard when I held off on rebooting. I launched an app (I forget what I installed in the first place, but it was from Software Update recently), because I just wanted to look at something real quick before restarting, and the whole system locked hard as the app icon was bouncing.

Only time I've ever had the system crash ever though.

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