2009/9/1 Dariusz J. Garbowski <thufo...@yahoo.co.uk>: > I'm starting to be really bothered by this. Today kdenetwork requires > restart due to... "fix Bug 515586 - Kopete: New Messages from changed > resource arrive in new tab/window". Wouldn't login/logout sequence do? And > that only if the user really cared, i.e. was using Kopete and this bug was > really irritating him. > > Before that imsettings required restart... kpackagekit required restart... > > > I'm with Matthew on this: "This is a real shame. One of the selling points > of Linux is that you *don't* need to reboot for every little upgrade (unlike > a certain other OS I shan't name)." > > Is this something that should be bugzilla'd? >
I think that the selling point is over-sold. It is true in many case for servers, but desktops are a much more interconnected system where updating something deep requires a lot of restarts.. and yes you could come up with a to probably deal with a good many of without a reboot... it is often faster to reboot the box than work out that you need to restart daemon-A then Y then Z and then A again -- Stephen J Smoogen. Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for? -- Robert Browning -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
