Comment 5 for bug 138955

If this is supposed to be a distro aimed at deep geeks then I have no issue with the behaviour. But it isn't. There were two problems, both of which can be fixed and would make the experience better. The first is that different terminology is used ("samba" vs "Folder sharing").

The second is that I had already explicitly disabled Folder Sharing/samba via the Ubuntu administrator tools. The pam update code completely ignored that. The dialog says "restart" yet at least one of the services was not running and had been disabled. I do not think it is unrealistic for the update code to take note of my previous choices and current state, and not include samba in the list (or anything else that isn't running and is disabled). The goal of the restarts is to ensure that the version of pam just removed is not used and only the newly installed one is, and not cause "collateral damage".

In order to answer the pam upgrade dialog, I certainly do think it is ridiculous to have to memorize every administrative action I have made in the past, have to go and translate short names into descriptive ones (how many people know what avahi does?), and then check to see if I previously disabled the service, for each and every one listed.