Does KDE do offline software updates?

[Joe Zeff]

On 03/24/2015 05:39 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> So updating any package, no matter how trivial, means rebooting?
> Speaking as someone who has never been a Gnome user, thanks for the
> clarification. KDE certainly does not do this. I don't know if any other
> DE does.

That's right if, and only if you use Gnome's built in package updater. 
If you use yum, yumex or dnf, you're not forced to reboot.