And because it runs all the time, we get issues like bug 1594080. It also worsens bugs like bug 1575426 where a user attempts to work around the issue by restarting the Software app (only it's not actually restarted because the process never stopped running).
Now that gnome-software's update notifier has been disabled [1], is there any reason gnome-software needs a background service anyway? packagekit or whatever can finish installing or removing an app in the background without gnome-software needing to still be running for that, right? [1] bug 1592382 since Ubuntu is currently better off using update-manager instead https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-software/3.20.1+git20160617.1.0440874.ubuntu-xenial-0ubuntu1 ** Tags added: xenial yakkety -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1592678 Title: gnome-software starts very early in the session, slowing down boot To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-software/+bug/1592678/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
