On Sat, 2023-02-25 at 12:53 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 2/25/23 11:20, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
If you really don't like it you can choose to just apply updates with dnf directly/live. Of course you will then be responsible for restarting everything that needs to be and deal with issues with running applications that have issues with being updated in this manner.
Not exactly difficult. Obviously, if the kernel's been upgraded, you need to restart to get it running. Otherwise, you run
sudo dnf needs-restarting
to find out what, if any, programs need to be restarted. (If you don't have it installed, you can get it by installing dnf-utils.)
Now part of the python3-dnf-plugins-core package so you don't need a separate command. With the plugin installed it just runs automatically.
Most of the time, either nothing needs restarting, or there are one or two programs you'll need to exit and restart on your own. Occasionally, you may need to log out and log back in, but having to reboot for anything less than a kernel is fairly rare. HTH, HAND.
My only quibble is that it sometimes tells you (correctly) to restart something where it's not obvious how to do this other than logging out and in again, e.g. pipewire-media-session. If the plugin were better informed about this kind of component it would be more user-friendly.
poc