On Tue, 3 Jan 2012 18:54:27 +0000 Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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. Considering that all applications keep all files open just for the fun of it. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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