On Tue, 03 Jan 2012 13:50:25 -0500 Olivier Crête <tes...@gentoo.org> wrote: > There is a good reason for that, because in-place upgrades are > impossible to do safely (and RedHat customers don't accept weird > breakages like Gentoo users do). For example, if you replace a library > or even a resource file (like a .ui file for GtkBuilder), the only way > to make it work is to make sure that no currently running application > is using it. And that just can't happen with system libraries like > glibc or system packages like udev or dbus. So the only safe way to > upgrade those is to reboot.
Uhm... Unix filesystems don't work that way; you can unlink an open file and anything that has that file still opened will continue to work. You're thinking of Windows; Unix supports in-place upgrades just fine. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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