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

[Bryan J Smith]

On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 08:53 -0500, Bryan J Smith wrote:
> 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.

All PackageKit did to me is re-enable the "yum-updatesd" (forgot the "s"
at the end in my prior e-mail) service.  Stopping that service and
restarting GNOME caused the applet to disappear.  ;)

Otherwise, as Fuzzy mentioned, removing "gnome-packagekit" is another
way to get rid of the applet as well.


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