On Sun, 2016-10-23 at 10:49 -0400, Monty Montgomery wrote: > Yes, the kernel has traditionally required a reboot, as have power > failures and hardware upgrades. But it seems odd that a reboot is > required for, eg, a GIMP update. This has been discussed repeatedly on devel@, so just to summarize the end result: the decision is that reboots are required when updating any RPM package. The reboot requirement can be avoided for desktop applications by switching to Flatpaks instead. Michael _______________________________________________ desktop mailing list -- desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to desktop-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
