What Fedora makes sucking for me - or why I am NOT Fedora

[Seth Vidal]

On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Nils Philippsen wrote:

>
> Somehow delaying file updates until after a reboot sounds yucky to me,
> not only because merely quitting firefox and starting it again would
> help in this instance. Perhaps we should find a way where yum/PK would
> flag packages which are known to have these issues to the user in the
> form of "updating these packages requires you to restart firefox/..."
> akin to how we hint users to logout and back in (e.g. update of basic
> GNOME packages) or reboot the machine (kernel).
>

there are multiple ways to do this - the hard part is not the 
implementation. The hard part is making the list of pkgs for which a 
restart of the box/app is important.

-sv