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

[Bryan J Smith]

On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 14:23 -0600, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> yum-updated was already off, it is something in the desktop. I
> (finally) found out where to deactivate it (system -> preferences ->
> system -> software updates) & it is silent now. Craig put me onto
> poking around menus & I found it.

Oh, I already disabled those.

> I am logged in as a regular user, however, not as root, so I was a bit
> surprised to find that in the desktop of someone other than root ....

It's just a notification service.  You still have to pass other
credentials to update.

It's designed for newer users, who are unlikely to run as root and/or
run updates.  I've run into several Windows users who have been asking
for the nag -- no joke -- because they don't know where else to look.

PackageKit is hardly Fedora-only, and is finding it's way into several
distros, as it supports many package systems.


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