2009/9/1 Dariusz J. Garbowski <thuforuk(a)yahoo.co.uk>:
I'm starting to be really bothered by this. Today kdenetwork
requires
restart due to... "fix Bug 515586 - Kopete: New Messages from changed
resource arrive in new tab/window". Wouldn't login/logout sequence do? And
that only if the user really cared, i.e. was using Kopete and this bug was
really irritating him.
Before that imsettings required restart... kpackagekit required restart...
I'm with Matthew on this: "This is a real shame. One of the selling points
of Linux is that you *don't* need to reboot for every little upgrade (unlike
a certain other OS I shan't name)."
Is this something that should be bugzilla'd?
I think that the selling point is over-sold. It is true in many case
for servers, but desktops are a much more interconnected system where
updating something deep requires a lot of restarts.. and yes you could
come up with a to probably deal with a good many of without a
reboot... it is often faster to reboot the box than work out that you
need to restart daemon-A then Y then Z and then A again
--
Stephen J Smoogen.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning