On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 09/30/2009 10:37 AM, William Jon McCann wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Since it has come up recently, I figured I'd briefly mention that some >> people in the desktop team, QE, and release engineering had a few >> lunchtime chats about our update process. I tried to write down some >> of what we talked about: >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Desktop/Whiteboards/UpdateExperience >> >> I later found out that there are a number of different initiatives >> underway that may help with this problem. So, that is good news. >> >> Interested to hear your thoughts. > > One thing I would really like is for PackageKit to download updates in > the background (detecting whether I am on a low bandwidth connection) > and only prompt me for updates when it is ready to install. > > Another constant annoyance is that soon after a yum operation in the > command line, PackageKit insists on updating some metadata immediately > thereby locking out the subsequent commands for sometime (can be a > considerable delay). I would prefer it to wait for a few mins and not > interrupt me. Filed and closed WONTFIX however. Just disable the packagekit yum plugin or do yum remove PackageKit-yum-plugin -- Fedora-desktop-list mailing list Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
