On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 08:40:12 -0400 Tom Horsley <horsley1953@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:10:36 +0000 > Timothy Murphy wrote: > > > What exactly is the purpose of PackageKit? > > I could but a sarcastic comment here, but I'd better not. > I find it to be the most annoying interface yet in a > long history of annoying interfaces to software package > management systems. > > > Is it essential? > > It is not essential, but lots of things expect it to > exist when they go to "helpfully" try and find missing > packages for you (print system looking for printer drivers, > bash looking for program you just typed the name of, etc). > > > It is used by yum in some way? > > It uses yum, it isn't used by yum. Mostly all it does > is interfere with yum by periodically locking the > updates while it is being "helpful". > -- Unfortunately, I agree with those above sentiments and others on this thread, but it can not be removed: why are these dependencies needed is beyond me? On my system, sudo yum erase PackageKit erases stuff like gnome-bluetooth, presumably because of bluez and control-center. Not clear why PackageKit should have these dependent on it. Ranjan -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
