On 12/9/19 11:30 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Mon, 2019-12-09 at 14:44 +0100, Roberto Ragusa wrote:
> On 12/9/19 2:06 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>> On Mon, 2019-12-09 at 08:53 -0400, George N. White III wrote:
>>> As long as the payment industry allows serial credit card fraud,
>>> criminals can avoid prosecution by operating from certain countries,
>>> programmers fail to use good security practices, and IOT devices
>>> are not getting security patches, more and more effort towards
>>> keeping systems secure will be needed.
>>>
>> That's not a reason to reboot because I updated Firefox (for example)
>> when I can just restart it. This all-or-nothing approach is one thing
>> that turns me off about Gnome.
> There is a friendly command to tell you:
>
> # needs-restarting
Yes, I know. I use it (I actually use the dnf tracer module which does
the same thing). I'm talking about the default software updater in
Gnome, not the command-line alternative. 'needs-restarting' is useless
if you use the Gnome GUI as it (apparently) will always restart anyway.
FWIW, I left Gnome long ago for Xfce; Gnome was just too much of a
resource hog. But then I don't use Xfce's dnfupdater and always use
command line.