On Wed, 2024-11-27 at 08:51 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > On 26/11/24 12:10, Tim via users wrote: > > On Tue, 2024-11-26 at 09:02 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > > > I assumed that when dnf retrieved it's metadata it was updating the > > > standard system locations which a normal user can't update, I didn't > > > know it was caching the data elsewhere. > > If you haven't given the magic password, no command is going to have > > the authority to change non-personal-user data. > > > > It's for these kinds of situations that there is a background task that > > pops alerts up through the taskbar to let people know there's updates > > waiting (if you want to use it). It does have some elevated > > privileges. > Yes, and I have never liked its functionality but put up with it because > I couldn't figure out how to disable it, although until now I didn't > know that what I don't like about it is being brought about by the > nature of the update repositories potentially. What I didn't like with > it was it pops up a message about updates being available and when I > look at what it is saying, it is notifying about updates for the > packages I have already just put on via DNF. You can just remove it. I only ever use dnf so the GUI updater just gets in the way. poc -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
