On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Rahul Sundaram sundaram@fedoraproject.org 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