[gentoo-user] Installed vs. Running (new feature suggestion)

[Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>]

A while ago I posted a question to this list asking how to be sure
updated software has taken effect on your machine.  Gentoo makes it
easy to install updated software, but what about being sure the newly
updated software is actually running in place of the old version?  The
concensus seemed to be that there are really only two ways to do this:

1. know enough about the updated software that, if necessary, you can
run the appropriate commands to make it take effect

or:

2. reboot

Neither of these seem practical to me.  What about a new Gentoo
feature that either:

1. keeps track of what needs to be done for each update to take effect
and can report whether or not that has been done since updating
(probably not so good)

or:

2. reports what version of installed software is actually running and
it's up to the user to figure out what needs to be done if installed
and running software versions do not match (probably better)

What do you think?

- Grant

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