Am 16.09.2014 um 12:21 schrieb Richard Hughes: > On 16 September 2014 10:55, Zdenek Kabelac <zkabe...@redhat.com> wrote: >> Just a thought - but wouldn't be better spend time to enlighten >> Gnome/Firefox developers how to write applications in a way the could be >> upgraded runtime > > So, it's not just the application, it's every application and D-Bus > service the application uses. Even glibc opens files-as-resources at > runtime. The much bigger issues is if you're using a D-Bus service > like most applications seem to do (and most use quite a few system and > session, directly and indirectly) then you've also got to co-ordinate > and handle changing D-Bus API (which typically isn't versioned). This > means you've got to restart the system DBus service at the right time > in the on-line update, which means co-ordinating with any other open > sessions on the system. Most desktop apps don't just sit in islands on > their own. It's probably okay to live-update powertop on a single-user > system when it's not being run, but anything much more integrated than > that just isn't going to work very well
and the other side of the story are some hundret dist-upgrades i made in the past years with YUM (in a screen session for safety) while just continue to browse the web and read / answer email
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