Improving pamac

[Aragorn]

@dstiles

Because it takes about an hour to restore all the apps to my required format and layout after a reboot I sometimes do not reboot when pamac suggests it; this delay can sometimes extend to a few days and I sometimes forget whether or not a reboot is required. Would it be possible to modify the panel icon, perhaps with, say, an orange bar, to indicate a reboot is required?

It would be far more logical to only update your system when you can make the time for it, rather than update the system while you’re in the middle of working.

Besides, the safest way to update/upgrade is always to completely log out of your desktop environment and run the update/upgrade process from within a tty. That way, the least amount of shared libraries will be in use that might get overwritten during the update/upgrade.

[HowTo] Updating Manjaro as safely as possible

The golden rule — which nobody follows, of course — when using a rolling-release distribution…: Always apply the bundled updates by way of the command line in a tty while completely logged out of your graphical environment, so that no shared libraries will be in use that will be overwritten by the update process. The safest way even would be to cleanly reboot your system first before applying any updates, and to then switch to a tty and run the update process from there without logging into…

@dstiles

Also, to indicate after a new update during this period that a reboot is pending - eg debian uses wording something like “a reboot is required for this or a previous update”.

Any update that includes the kernel, glibc or systemd requires a reboot, and considering that Manjaro bundles the updates together, this will apply to 99.99% of all bundled updates.

Please be advised that Manjaro is not a set-and-forget distribution, and that some commitment and responsibility are required.

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