On Tue, Jun 22, 2021, at 10:23 AM, Tim Evans wrote:
On 6/21/21 4:52 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
PackageKit and dnf keep separate metadata in /var/cache and they update periodically. PackageKit seems to do this on login, but I've also noticed it trigger an update when I switch networks. And dnf is on a timer. Either of them can use a lot of cpu, it just depends on how much updating they need.
Well, this raises the question of just whether packagekit is something everyone needs in the first place. I manage my systems with dnf and have never once opened the Gnome software manager thingie. Googling around, I find:
I don't know a lot about Packagekit, or anything else really. But I will take this chance to complain again. When rebooting or shutting down my laptop, many times the process is delayed (up to 1.5 minutes) and it displays its waiting for a Packagekit job to finish. Thats really annoying and I have not suffered from anything similar on Linux before. Just saying, if anyone knows of a solution for this, Im all ears.
thanks,