-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/14/2012 12:10 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > What exactly is the purpose of PackageKit? It's an abstraction over various package management and dependency solving backends. The website has lots of information: http://www.packagekit.org/ > Is it essential? No. You can still use the underlying systems your distribution provides even if PackageKit is installed. You might hit some dependency problems trying to remove it but I have never needed to. > It is used by yum in some way? No, PackageKit uses yum (or some other dependency solver/updater depending on what the distribution it's running on uses). > I'm asking because I get an error message > ------------------------------- Fetch Job Error - Plasma Desktop > Shell > > Unknown error. (Unable to fetch item from backend) > ------------------------------- whenever I login or wake from > hibernation, and I saw somewhere a suggestion that this might be > related to PackageKit. It's reported as happening on Ubuntu to plasma-bugs as well: http://osdir.com/ml/plasma-bugs/2012-01/msg01513.html And is tracked in KDE bug 292601 (with other reports from Arch users): https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=292601 These are within the first few hits on google for the error message you quoted (right after your post to fedora-kde last month). Regards, Bryn. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk9gwe8ACgkQ6YSQoMYUY97EJwCfakLZ8ADhqJdTQrozUkJ+Tvwq gskAoJOKDPMDVn/P+8w3zbleAv0fjrDt =vXog -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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
