On Tue, 2016-10-04 at 20:43 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > But ordinary regular app updates will happily run on cruise control, without > bringing the system down into single user mode. If Android can do that, I > see no reason why Fedora can't, either. The only time you need to reboot an > Android device is for a kernel-level update. No, in fact, it's for any *system level* update. Any change to the underlying system (as opposed to an app) requires the full reboot treatment. Only updates to app packages don't. The reason Android can do fairly good app updates is precisely because it does exactly what Flatpak and Snappy are trying to do for Linux: hard separation between app space and system space. Flatpak and Snappy didn't just spring fully formed from a vacuum, they're very obviously the product of someone using Android and/or iOS and going 'huh, maybe we should do that'. We can't realistically do it with the 'distribution is just a big pile of RPMs' model. GNOME folks thought we could, for a while, then realized they were wrong. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
