On 06/17/2012 06:06 PM, Richard Hughes wrote:
On 17 June 2012 10:53, Richard W.M. Jones<rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
So this is a problem that needs to be solved, but does it require a
reboot? Not really ... it's possible to list all processes using
zlib, convert that back into a list of packages, then instruct those
packages to restart themselves. Job done, BETTER than Windows / OS X.
That's simply not possible. Some processes like dbus-daemon and
gnome-session just cannot be restarted in this way. It's a complete
fallacy to believe you can update core libraries on a modern Linux
system without rebooting. Add btrfs snapshotting to the mix (to be
able to do updates safely) and doing updates in-situ becomes
impossible. If Fedora wants to statically link everything, then it's
certainly possible to workaround, but that's not acceptable to Fedora
for perfectly understandable reasons.
I wonder if it would be possible to do it on shutdown instead of during
start up? I usually do not care if shutdown takes ten seconds or five
minutes, but when I start my computer I do so because I want to use it
and not wait several minutes before its ready.
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