Does KDE do offline software updates?

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2015-03-25 at 13:34 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On 25 March 2015 at 13:01, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Even for updates to running
> > programs, or the DE itself, rebooting is often not necessary.
> 
> If you find a reliable race-free way of working out which packages can
> safely be updated at runtime, please let me know. Also, any solution
> that relies on just looking at what binary links a certain shared
> library will be referred to the D-Bus homepage.

So why does Fedora provide a command called "needs-updating"?

poc