[Leaplist] minor issue w/ 'PackageKit' (Fedora 9) after upgrade ....

[Bryan J Smith]

On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 00:15 -0500, Craig Conner wrote:
> Ah, yes.  A popup by any other name is still annoying.
> Packagekit by itself is not a problem AFAIK.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PackageKit
> The whining piece in your desktop is called (usually) either
> gnome-packagekit or kpackagekit.  What bothers me about them is that
> they start up running in my little desktop tray and while they're
> running I can't use yum.  Grrrr.
> If I remember correctly you can remove just the desktop parts without
> removing packagekit itself...
> I just uninstalled the thing:
> # yum erase kpackagekit

What happens if you turn off the "yum-updated" service?  That's what I
always used to do because of the same issue -- the darn thing locking
the RPM database so I can't do YUM.  Many, many non-privileged GNOME
applets are utilizing privileged services.

I know PackageKit is a very cross-distro move, of which Fedora has been
trying to do more and more (and even leading in many areas).  But if
this thing is more nagware, this needs to be addressed.  I'm updating my
Fedora 9 system now (I'll be moving to F10 probably this week) and
seeing what the issues are.



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