Does KDE do offline software updates?

[Michael Schwendt]

On Wed, 25 Mar 2015 14:52:11 +1030, Tim wrote:

> Patrick O'Callaghan:
> >> 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.
> 
> Joe Zeff:
> > 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.
> 
> Jeez, but that sounds such a crap encumbrance.  Even just a log out and
> log back in again is a severe nuisance.  It's beginning to sound a lot
> like Windows; built for morons, by morons.

How do you restart already running processes after an upgrade of system
libraries and/or services, for example?

Log out and log back in is not enough.