Must restart after installing firefox and kde...WHY????

Every time I set up an arch box, when I install firefox or kde (probably others) I must restart the computer before I can even execute them. This is mighty inconvenient and un-linux-like, I noticed that during the bootup, the Updating Shared Library Links takes a little longer after installing firefox or kde, is there a command I can run that does this after installing firefox or kde that dosen't require me to restart?

stonecrest wrote:
phrakture wrote:You can also just "source /etc/profile" - but that won't help your window manager or anything
I wish pacman or the .install files would check to see if /opt/foo, the path that the package was just installed to, is in $PATH and automatically source /etc/profile if it's not. I swear this is a top 10 question from users and rightfully so, they shouldn't have to deal with this. In my humble opinion.
I'm pretty sure most do - however, that only sources it for root, not the user running - I have no idea, off the top of my head, if this works correctly under sudo.
However, the important part is that your WM/DE is running under a totally different environment setup, and the 'export' stuff does not reach it.
I can't really think of a good way to get around it - I know it's rather irritating to some people.  I wonder if adding something like "/opt/*/bin" to the PATH by default would work... I don't think it globs properly though...

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