Kevin wrote: > Hi All- > > I've read the portage documentation at > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/index.xml?catid=gentoo and I've searched > and browsed the gentoo-user mailing list archive, but I have a question > that I don't see answered anywhere. > > It seems to me that it must be true that sometimes, after a system > upgrade done with: > > emerge -uD system > or > emerge -uD world > > I must reboot the computer for the changes to take effect.
Nah, you can restart pretty much any service to get the new version going. Technically you shouldn't ever have to reboot except kernel updates. (We aren't running windows here) ;) HTH, (unofficial advice) -Jeremy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list