On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 9:56 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 4 October 2016 at 16:51, Adam Williamson <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: >> >> Running the update process inside a desktop just gives it all the more >> opportunity to crash somehow. If the terminal app crashes, the update >> crashes. If the desktop crashes, the update crashes. >> >> I don't want to get in the KDE folks' bad graces, but this likely could >> also affect KDE's graphical update system, so I'd advise against using >> that for the present too. > > > Maybe I've just been lucky but I run dnf on a daily basis in a Konsole > terminal window (under KDE) and have never seen this kind of problem. I > don't use the graphical updater(s). I do it also but I also take a snapshot of root first, and then I expect without warning that the GUI could just vanish and munge a bunch of things. It's a use case I expect to not work, even though it Works For Me™. -- Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
