Re: PSA: Do not run 'dnf update' inside GNOME, KDE or any other graphical desktop on Fedora 24

[Sam Varshavchik]

Adam Williamson writes:

>  All dnf's 'nice features' aren't really there for a
> system update, are
>  they? 
Well what are they there for, then?

>        You can use all of its nice features for doing other things.
Like what? I thought that the only thing dnf does is update the system. Oh,  
yeah, sure you can query metadata on available packages too.

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> When
>  you update the system, all you want is...an updated system. pkcon and
>  GNOME's offline update flow achieve that just fine. 
Hmmm… Right now, running "pkcon get-updates" claims "There are no updates 

available at this time.", meanwhile "dnf upgrade" shows 68 packages that
can  
be updated. "pkcon refresh" doesn't change anything.