On 2020-05-14 8:08 a.m., Richard Hughes wrote:
On Wed, 13 May 2020 at 13:28, John Mellor <john.mellor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
That just stumps me. How can Vim possibly be an update requiring a
system reboot?
All package updates are scheduled for offline installation. There's no
safe way to update packages at runtime, and I've written a lot about
this in the past.
That is untrue. I have observed a few packages installing without a
required reboot.
So, is there a problem in the dependencies lists of the packages, or is
it a bug in the Gnome updater app?
No bug. If you want safe runtime updates you need to look at either
flatpak or snap. Flatpak updates can be installed "live" safely in all
situations.
Flatpak and snap packages have serious downsides, in that they take
longer to start and do not share RAM for common libs. They also do not
resolve the issues associated with runtime data dependencies any better
than the current packaging does, and therefore have many of the same
issues. They are not the answer. Fixing the runtime code and data
dependency issue is the correct way to fix it.
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