https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=435574

--- Comment #24 from lnx...@westlot.net ---
(In reply to Manuel Geißer from comment #22)
> (In reply to Harald Sitter from comment #3)
> > Can you outline heuristics for what requires a reboot and what does not?
> Hmm, is there a list of which other packages depend on a package? Then a
> basic heuristic would be not to require reboot for packages that are not
> dependencies of other (installed) packages. This would at least allow to
> exclude most end-user applications, like web browsers and office
> applications, where a reboot should not be needed.

That info is already available in every .deb package, it just needs to be
gathered and stored in a central location to prevent having to check each
individual package needing updating.  There would also need to be a way to grab
that data when a package manager other than Discover was used to install a
package.

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