Re: strange authentication request (GNOME)

2013-05-30 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-05-30 at 12:09 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Thu, 30 May 2013 09:38:11 +0100 > Matej Kosik <5764c029b688c1c0d24a2e97cd7...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >GNOME & KDE somewhat increase the fragmentation. > > I'm (reasonably) sure they're not the only people of working to their > own end. >

Re: strange authentication request (GNOME)

2013-05-30 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 30 May 2013 09:38:11 +0100 Matej Kosik <5764c029b688c1c0d24a2e97cd7...@gmail.com> wrote: >GNOME & KDE somewhat increase the fragmentation. I'm (reasonably) sure they're not the only people of working to their own end. {snip} >as if, GNOME was somehow special and deserved special treatmen

Re: strange authentication request (GNOME)

2013-05-30 Thread Matej Kosik
On 29/05/13 11:59, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Wed, 29 May 2013 10:47:55 +0100 > Matej Kosik <5764c029b688c1c0d24a2e97cd7...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello Matej, > >> The reason seems to be that, from now on, GNOME cannot be installed >> without PackageKit. :-/ > > Oh dear. Maybe removal of the GNOME

Re: strange authentication request (GNOME)

2013-05-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 08:39:00PM +0400, recovery...@gmail.com wrote: > On Thu, 30 May 2013 01:32:27 +1200 > Chris Bannister wrote: > > > I am fairly sure that aptitude came AFTER synaptic! > > While I don't argue with that (I started using Debian when etch was > testing), on my Debian syste

Re: strange authentication request (GNOME)

2013-05-29 Thread recoverym4n
On Thu, 30 May 2013 01:32:27 +1200 Chris Bannister wrote: > I am fairly sure that aptitude came AFTER synaptic! While I don't argue with that (I started using Debian when etch was testing), on my Debian system changelogs for aptitude and synaptic clearly show that aptitude was first, and syn

Re: strange authentication request (GNOME)

2013-05-29 Thread Conrad Nelson
On 05/29/2013 04:47 AM, Matej Kosik wrote: On 28/05/13 16:38, Brad Rogers wrote: On Tue, 28 May 2013 16:16:36 +0100 Matej Kosik<5764c029b688c1c0d24a2e97cd7...@gmail.com> wrote: Hello Matej, On my desktop (squeeze), I've noticed the following "authentication request" ... attached {etc.} Do

Re: strange authentication request (GNOME)

2013-05-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 09:16:06PM +0400, recovery...@gmail.com wrote: > Then, Debian got aptitude, and couple of years later RedHat was like 'up2date > is > bad, we need something else, let's borrow yum from one of our derivatives'. > yum > usually gets the job done, if you don't mind wait a lit

Re: strange authentication request (GNOME)

2013-05-29 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 29 May 2013 10:47:55 +0100 Matej Kosik <5764c029b688c1c0d24a2e97cd7...@gmail.com> wrote: Hello Matej, >The reason seems to be that, from now on, GNOME cannot be installed >without PackageKit. :-/ Oh dear. Maybe removal of the GNOME meta-package will allow you to remove PackageKit. If t

Re: strange authentication request (GNOME)

2013-05-29 Thread Matej Kosik
On 28/05/13 16:38, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Tue, 28 May 2013 16:16:36 +0100 > Matej Kosik <5764c029b688c1c0d24a2e97cd7...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello Matej, > >> On my desktop (squeeze), I've noticed the following "authentication >> request" ... attached > {etc.} > > Do you use update-notifier?

Re: strange authentication request (GNOME)

2013-05-28 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 28 May 2013 16:16:36 +0100 Matej Kosik <5764c029b688c1c0d24a2e97cd7...@gmail.com> wrote: Hello Matej, >On my desktop (squeeze), I've noticed the following "authentication >request" ... attached {etc.} Do you use update-notifier? That is, is the update-notifier package installed? If yes

Re: strange authentication request (GNOME)

2013-05-28 Thread recoverym4n
On Tue, 28 May 2013 16:16:36 +0100 Matej Kosik <5764c029b688c1c0d24a2e97cd7...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is this some new dpkg/apt frontend or something unrelated? Hi. Yep, new one. Called PackageKit, brought to you by the same people, who are responsible for PulseAudio, ConsoleKit, GNOME3 and system