On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:10:36 +0000 Timothy Murphy wrote: > What exactly is the purpose of PackageKit?
I could but a sarcastic comment here, but I'd better not. I find it to be the most annoying interface yet in a long history of annoying interfaces to software package management systems. > Is it essential? It is not essential, but lots of things expect it to exist when they go to "helpfully" try and find missing packages for you (print system looking for printer drivers, bash looking for program you just typed the name of, etc). > It is used by yum in some way? It uses yum, it isn't used by yum. Mostly all it does is interfere with yum by periodically locking the updates while it is being "helpful". -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org 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
