On Tue, 24 Mar 2015 12:45:26 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
I don't use Gnome so my understanding of this is based only on a literal reading. It appears to say that packages are updated with a tool which among other things causes two reboots. Obviously I know that the user might just employ yum as I do myself (on KDE) but the description of the GUI tool is quite specific. Which is why I asked if that's what really happens. Call it a rhetorical question.
You sound as if you're surprised that an update tool applies offline updates with the help of rebooting.
It has never been entirely safe to update/upgrade with Yum. Simply because Yum does not take any precautions, such as making sure the user doesn't use a program while upgrading it, or killing and restarting services in a way it doesn't harm the runtime environment. Offline updates remove some of the pitfalls.