On Sat, Sep 09, 2017 at 09:34:00AM -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > In short, there is no valid, technical, fundamental reason why a dnf > upgrade should leave the system in an unstable state, or somehow > interfere with any running daemon; and why a running daemon has to > intentionally go out of its way to frak things up if it was upgraded > while it was running. It's not just the opened-at-initial-run libraries and files. Many programs just aren't written to deal properly with this and make assumptions they shouldn't. It'd be awesome if that weren't the case, but it's not. (See the Firefox example I posted for a very clear one.) Additionally, of course, in the event of a security update, you may *think* you've applied patches, but without restarts, you haven't. -- Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora Project Leader _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
