Installing updates while the session is running can cause many unpleasant situations for the users and their system. The risks are many, including the updating of libraries while they are running, updating while some file resources have not been locked, and sometimes in core OS updates we may even see a complete system corruption.
It seems like GNOME developers know the problem and are willing to do anything to offer a solution as soon as possible (GNOME 3.6).
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