23 Oct
2016
23 Oct
'16
11:42 a.m.
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