F20 offline updates: way too frequent

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 12:40:15 -0600,
   Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro at gnome.org> wrote:
>On Sat, 2013-12-28 at 13:29 -0500, Monty Montgomery wrote:
>> I'd have thought the problem is not daily updates, but daily updates
>> that require logout or reboot.
>
>To be clear: every update requires reboot in Fedora 20 GNOME. (You have
>to go out of your way, by using yum/dnf or gpk-update-viewer, if you
>want to avoid reboots.)

You can usually get away with not rebooting right away, but you need to be 
aware that you aren't going to get kernel or shared library fixes right 
away, which can leave security vulnerabilities in some cases. For some 
applications (notably firefox), you'll need to restart the application to 
avoid issues. For cases where you have gnome issues, logging out will probably 
be good enough and you can avoid doing a reboot.