On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 11:42:48AM -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
This has been discussed repeatedly on devel@, so just to summarize
the
end result: the decision is that reboots are required when updating any
RPM package. The reboot requirement can be avoided for desktop
applications by switching to Flatpaks instead.
I think that's a fine approach, but in order to do that, we need to get
serious about Flatpacking all of the desktop applications we ship — no
just leaning on it as a technology for third-party apps on Fedora.
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Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader