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Old 03-27-2021, 11:56 AM   #190
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Originally Posted by NiLuJe View Post
More than a few reasons:

* Not surviving updates is not a bug, it's a feature: we have no guarantee that a change in Nickel's behavior won't break KFMon in subtle or not-so-subtle ways, and, in the worst case, that could lead to a boot loop or a soft lock.

* You have no guarantee that the old script could even allow the updated system to boot sanely.

* You have no guarantee that the update process will handle a permission error sanely .
Hmm yeah. I was fearing that tar would abort if it didn't succeed in overwriting the file.
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