Ahhhhhh, now that is wonderfully good info for me to learn; thank you. Here's what reboot-required.pkgs contains:
I wonder when they were last updated?* Now i'm wondering if my old Mint 17.x KDE4 might have also had multiple entries in this file, but without [apparently] an equivalent to kubuntu-notification-helper, never told me i needed to reboot, & so i remained blissfully unaware?** This has potentially even larger ramifications; as i wrote before, i used to think that one major benefit of Linux over Windows was the lack of need to reboot after updates... maybe i was completely wrong about that?
* According to Update Manager's History of Updates, dbus was updated last night [which come to think of it, i do remember now], but linux-base is not actually listed, which seems a bit weird.
** No, wrong. I launched my old Mint 17.3 KDE4 VM, let it do a big update [which included dbus but not also linux-base], then checked /run. Neither of those files exists. So this might imply one of the big changes from Ubuntu 14.04 to 16.04? By additional logical inference, it now does seem that the answer to my primary query, "Is there anything innate within Ubuntu 16.04, including but not necessarily its change to systemd, that now necessitates system restarts after installing "ordinary" [non-kernel] updates?", might be "Yes". That's pretty big news.
- linux-base
- dbus
I wonder when they were last updated?* Now i'm wondering if my old Mint 17.x KDE4 might have also had multiple entries in this file, but without [apparently] an equivalent to kubuntu-notification-helper, never told me i needed to reboot, & so i remained blissfully unaware?** This has potentially even larger ramifications; as i wrote before, i used to think that one major benefit of Linux over Windows was the lack of need to reboot after updates... maybe i was completely wrong about that?
* According to Update Manager's History of Updates, dbus was updated last night [which come to think of it, i do remember now], but linux-base is not actually listed, which seems a bit weird.
** No, wrong. I launched my old Mint 17.3 KDE4 VM, let it do a big update [which included dbus but not also linux-base], then checked /run. Neither of those files exists. So this might imply one of the big changes from Ubuntu 14.04 to 16.04? By additional logical inference, it now does seem that the answer to my primary query, "Is there anything innate within Ubuntu 16.04, including but not necessarily its change to systemd, that now necessitates system restarts after installing "ordinary" [non-kernel] updates?", might be "Yes". That's pretty big news.