On Sat, Feb 25, 2023 at 12:53:59PM -0700, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 2/25/23 11:20, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > If you really don't like it you can choose to just apply updates with
> > dnf directly/live. Of course you will then be responsible for restarting
> > everything that needs to be and deal with issues with running
> > applications that have issues with being updated in this manner.
> 
> Not exactly difficult.  Obviously, if the kernel's been upgraded, you need
> to restart to get it running.  Otherwise, you run

Or glibc, or dbus or systemd or ... 
 
> sudo dnf needs-restarting
> 
> to find out what, if any, programs need to be restarted.  (If you don't have
> it installed, you can get it by installing dnf-utils.)  Most of the time,
> either nothing needs restarting, or there are one or two programs you'll
> need to exit and restart on your own.  Occasionally, you may need  to log
> out and log back in, but having to reboot for anything less than a kernel is
> fairly rare.  HTH,  HAND.

Yeah, needs restarting is pretty cool. 

If you are logging out and back in, a reboot really isn't that much more
hassle IMHO. I used needs-restarting for a while a few years ago, but it
was pretty often that you basically had to restart everything and a
reboot was just a lot easier. 

YMMV.

kevin

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