On Sun, Dec 29, 2019 at 1:50 PM Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. <eoconnor25@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > k....I'm just gonna ask this: > > > Why is it now that when I get notifications for updates I'm being > prompted to "restart & Install"?...... This is literally many years old behavior. https://lwn.net/Articles/702629/ > Is this WINDOWS!?.......I have enjoyed the fact that I could update my > system and use my computer until I was ready to shutdown / restart at my > leisure. Now?....there's a funky button up top of the Software Updates > (after its found packages to update) that says "Restart & > Install"?......is there ANY way possible to TURN THIS CRAP OFF!!?? Is > there some config file I can alter that will make this GO AWAY!? (I know > I'm acting like a lunatic, but I was in the IT field since the Windows > NT 4.0 days...and after finding Linux?...I have enjoyed NOT having to > restart after updates.) You really haven't, you're just not aware of, or maybe don't care about, the ensuing problems. > Please Fedora Admins.....Fedora Magical > Unicorns......Fedora High Council Wizards....PLEASE find a way to make > this just GO AWAY!?.... There are a couple of long term solutions for the problem, depending on what's being updated. For applications, flatpak can handle updates (I'm not absolutely sure to what degree it's intended for and reliably handles updating running applications, but I do it fairly regularly and haven't seen any ensuing weirdness; the new version is available at next launch). For the OS itself, rpm-ostree does an out of band update (uses hard links to created a copy of the operating system, and then updates that copy), you see the updates upon reboot which you can do at your liesure. And openSUSE variant doing transactional updates using Btrfs: basically it makes a snapshot of the operating system, and applies the updates to the snapshot, and upon reboot it boots the updated snapshot. -- Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
