On Sat, Jun 02, 2018 at 09:17:36AM -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 06/02/2018 08:44 AM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > See: 2001 or so unless you had upgraded to a new gblic there wasn't a > > need to reboot Linux machines. Most of the times it was enough to log > > in/out of your X. And that was it. And that approach was, AFAICS, what > > John Morris probably was referring to. > > From the other threads on this topic, this was not entirely true. And now, > there are many more moving parts so the chance of running into a problem are > higher. If you update libraries, you have restart all the services that use > them. And your point about logging out of X defeats most of the purpose of > doing a live update anyway. Most people want to do it to avoid closing > their open applications. And updating something like LibreOffice or Firefox > while it's running is just asking for trouble. I'm not sure about what you mean with "Live Update": Is this sort of update able to restart services in a running system (X even?) if needed, and without the need to reboot? Wolfgang _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/IKJESUJ76A4KSIYNX6QKCGNORGVKJNES/
