On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 11:39:05PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
Lots of people deeply hate the required reboot, though. I mean, they
Oh, sorry, I was thinking updates, not upgrades. As you were.
Well, this was covered by at least one comment as well, which asked for updates to happen transparently in the background.
How would it work? It would still yank things out from under the running environment possibly making the whole system unstable, or sufficiently confusing for the user that they initiate a reboot in the middle of the update.
Well, keep in mind that I asked "what do you want?", not necessarily "what easy things could we do?". The comment I referred to was:
Background updates – don't prompt me unless it's a breaking change; do it over night, lunch, any time I'm not actually using the app/library.
For a lot of updates, we could probably do this reasonably well even without Flatpak. *With* Flatpak, I think the story becomes a lot easier.