Re: Improving the offline updates user experience

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Am 15.09.2014 um 14:28 schrieb Richard W.M. Jones:
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 10:57:13AM +0200, Vít Ondruch wrote:
>> 1) I run some application, which loads my foo.rb file.
>> 2) I later update the package which removes bar.rb file.
>> 3) And I call some_function which fails due to missing bar.rb
> 
> How is this not 'foo' simply being broken?  ie. Not expressing its
> needs properly in its RPM dependencies?
> 
> It would still have been broken even with a reboot

no - why should it?

'foo' is loaded in memory, updated and now has different dependencies
no longer require 'bar.rb' but your running version still do

yes, such corner cases are possible, regardless no reason
for go the windows way and reboot after any minor update

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