Limiting the power of package installation in Debian

Posted Nov 15, 2018 14:22 UTC (Thu) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129)
In reply to: Limiting the power of package installation in Debian by federico3
Parent article: Limiting the power of package installation in Debian

> Yet, installing files is never going to be enough to integrate applications together. For example installing a plugin for a daemon that requires to run some kind of refresh command.

Services are expected to be able to reload their configuration using the `systemctl reload` command. So packages could simply specify declaratively which services need to reload their configuration and then the package manager can do that. And it's better, because the package manager would only do this once per service, even if you install several such packages at once.