Re: Does KDE do offline software updates?

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On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 5:57 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan
<pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-03-24 at 11:40 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 5:14 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan
>> <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Mon, 2015-03-23 at 17:50 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
>> >> OK I'm going to display some total KDE ignorance here, hopefully a KDE
>> >> user can answer this.
>> >
>> > Note that there's a Fedora-KDE list at
>> > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde
>> >
>> >> On GNOME, gnome-software + packagekit + systemd work together to make
>> >> the  user aware of software updates. This includes any installed
>> >> applications, as well as OS + kernel updates. The user clicks on
>> >> Restart & Install in gnome-software, or chooses that option in the
>> >> reboot/poweroff panel. The system reboots, a special systemd offline
>> >> updates target is triggered, and packagekit installs all the
>> >> previously downloaded rpms with a progress indicator, then reboots
>> >> (again).
>> >
>> > You mean Gnome makes you reboot for every update? I must be
>> > misunderstanding what you're saying.
>>
>> OS updates yes. If it's strictly an application update or install, no.
>
> That's fine. It's just that from your description I had the impression
> that the only way to apply updates was from this Restart & Install
> action.

If you're using the graphical package manager, yes, this is the only way.

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