F13-Question: Cannot start a new yum immediately after an old "yum update" ends

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 04/03/2010 07:06 PM, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On 3 April 2010 14:20, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> I agree, unless there is some technical reason that PackageKit needs
>> to be called immediately following a yum command it would be great if
>> it waited a while.
>>     
> PK has to update the icon after performing some yum CLI actions. If
> you do yum update in the console, and then we're still showing an icon
> saying "104 updates" and the user then clicks the icon it then says
> "No updates available". This would be a big bug.
>   
Yes but the bug about annoying users by locking out yum is important
too.   It is very likely that users will run yum commands in succession
and PackageKit interferes with that and gets removed on the whole by
many users at the moment.   It is better than Pirut but it is still very
annoying.

> You can remove PackageKit-yum-plugin if this bothers you, or change
> the config file settings.
>   

I think the out of the box experience should be better.

Rahul