On Wed, Jul 13, 2016, at 03:04 PM, Andrew Lutomirski wrote:
I want to add a couple more to the scope: dnf and PackageKit. I
don't
care *how* dnf and PackageKit get started. If they're making changes,
systemd should *not* zap them on logout.
PackageKit has been a daemon from the start (and this has been
a long-running major technological difference from yum). For
precisely this reason, you wouldn't want logging out of your
desktop to break updates in the middle.
rpm-ostree is also a daemon, and what's notable here is unlike
the dnf/PackageKit situation, you can't even use rpm -Uvh, so
there is only one way to mutate the host system that is consistently
using a daemon.