On 17.09.2014 13:58, Miroslav Suchý wrote:
On 09/17/2014 11:54 AM, Bastien Nocera wrote:
All those OSes require reboots when updating the OS.
Define OS.
Firefox is definitely not OS. While systemd is OS. I am fine with reboot after systemd upgrade, but not after upgrading Firefox.
the important point in that case is not reboot after upgrading Firefox but *before* upgrading Firefox, which means that at the time of the upgrade no Firefox will be running and potentially crashing because one of the 100s of DSOs it loads on-demand has changed in an incompatible way.
there used to be quite a few ABRT crashes reported against desktop applications with impossible looking stack traces (although with the automatic micro-reports it's less of a problem nowadays as they are easier to ignore), and sometimes the reporter gives feedback that the application was running across a yum update...