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* Re: [gentoo-user] When to reboot after updates to the system
  @ 2006-04-29  1:27 99% ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
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From: Hemmann, Volker Armin @ 2006-04-29  1:27 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

On Saturday 29 April 2006 02:42, Kevin wrote:

>
> It seems to me that it must be true that sometimes, after a system
> upgrade done with:
>
> emerge -uD system
> or
> emerge -uD world
>
> I must reboot the computer for the changes to take effect.

short answer: no
long answer: only after kernel updates

> I could be wrong on this, but it seems reasonable to me to think that I
> should reboot in certain circumstances.  Perhaps after an upgrade to the
>  glibc package or other libraries... not sure.

you are wrong.
You don't need to reboot. Only, and really only after a kernel update you need 
to reboot.

Services might to have to be restarted, but that requires no reboot, just a 
console and root.
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