Is there a way to get a nice helpful popup telling me which applications and services to restart?

Yes, there are many ways to determine that on the command line. As far as a GUI, I couldn’t say as that isn’t how I do system administration.

I’m not sure what scenario you are envisioning. Usually upgrades are handled via the distribution and its package manager, and the maintainers take care of library issues. It’s not like windows where you go all over downloading packages from websites and installing them over each other.

I was responding to your own comment

>In a case where one could get some sort of inconsistency because of different library versions, you restart the applications.

I am envisioning the same scenario you replied to!

Yes, but for some reason you want a GUI alert to tell you important things, which is a foreign concept to me. What I envision is knowing what is running on your server and updating programs purposefully, with knowledge of how they interact and what problems version inconsistency could cause.

You're the one proposing the enumeration of affected programs and services and restarting them as a solution!! How is using a GUI a foreign concept? Are you debating the merits of a GUI in 2018?

In any case, my assumption here is we're trying to help the user and give them an easy way to know what to do, instead of leaving their software in an undefined state.

Great. For one, I was initially confused because I thought you were the author of the post I replied to you. Next, yes. I think we should do that.