On Mon, 2015-02-02 at 10:50 -0500, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
> 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.
It'd only be an improvement if users often saw a set of updates which
*only* contained such packages. In my experience that rarely if ever
happens.
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