On 1/1/20 7:48 PM, John Mellor wrote:
However, I believe that you have completely missed the point of the threads. If Gnome (for example) is not API-safe and failures may occur when upgrading its components and/or apps, then a suitable workaround would possibly be to install only those app updates over a reboot, and allow the other packages to be updated normally and without requiring a reboot. Maybe this could easily be flagged for dnf using a static list of package groups that are known to be unsafe. This possible solution would remove the need for 75% of the reboots.
You are still not getting it. There is no reliable way to tell if an update is safe. There was even one a while back where X would blow up in the middle of the transaction which caused serious problems. If you are comfortable with doing online updates (which I generally do as well), then do it. But if something goes wrong, don't file a bug. For non-technical users, it's much better for them to have to reboot to do the updates than deal with strange random issues. There's probably a kernel update anyway.
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