On Mon, 2015-02-02 at 10:50 -0500, Miloslav Trmač wrote: > > On 31 January 2015 at 21:57, Casey Jao <casey....@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. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
