On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Colin Walters wrote:
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 7:23 PM, Seth Vidal
<skvidal(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
And I think what Bill is saying is that a lot of users will not want to logout. They will
want to just restart the
app in question, if they are told which apps are impacted.
This is what I meant in saying it's case by case, not something where one policy
applies to all software. If you just
updated Firefox, then yes, we can and should have a system which knows how to restart
just that application.
The discussion started about infrastructure bits, like:
I don't expect to have to reboot just b/c of an issue in the sound server.
Not reboot for this one but relogin. Well, you can choose not to of course, but the
point of an update is to actually
update what's running on people's computers. If the system doesn't reliably
get us there it's not working..
So what was suggested by dmalcolm was tracking down which programs in use
are being updated/changed and telling the user 'this application that is
currently in use by [userid] needs to be restarted to take advantage of
this update'.
I was suggesting we could get that info in yum and make it available.
-sv