On 31 January 2015 at 21:57, Casey Jao <casey.jao(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> Are there any plans to let packages specify that they do not require a
> total
> system reboot to be updated?
Yes, see
https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/SandboxedApps -- basically,
you can't do updates of rpm-sourced system-wide app deployments
without a reboot in a safe way.
There are classes of RPMs that definitely can be done without a reboot in a safe way
(documentation-only; packages with a single executable and no libraries / separate data
files; and quite a few other cases), and letting packagers opt them in to being updated
without a reboot seems like a clear improvement on the status quo.
I don’t know, perhaps they are currently rare enough that it is not worth it; but it seems
to me that we will need vaguely that kind of infrastructure in any case (if only to allow
updates of the sandboxed apps).
Mirek