-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday, 2013-03-31 at 16:21 -0400, James Knott wrote:
Linda Walsh wrote:
We've already gotten to the point of updates telling us that our system needs to be rebooted for the updates to take effect...
Does that apply to anything other than kernel updates?
Of course it does. For example, glibc. And many others, because the only assured⁽¹⁾ method to restart some system services is a restart (udev, hal, are classic examples). (1) "assured" as in not needing a long explanation, and a long list of manual things to do. A restart is simply faster to explain and do. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 12.1 x86_64 "Asparagus" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlFYq8QACgkQtTMYHG2NR9W4pgCfaRwUxSihtQCbszAmv1rDcUdw 2qcAnAui7pBPbqRt9sAMdDPXrwMVxFIQ =5WiV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----