On 12/22/18 10:50 AM, home user via users wrote:
These confirm what Ed and Samuel say about apper and Software being
dependent on PackageKit. The problem is that now it looks to me like
apper and Software cannot be used to find to find tools and apps without
also checking for updates. Am I correct? How do I make these tools
useful for searching without them checking for updates?
I don't think you can.
Several times this year, while doing weekly patches (dnf upgrade
--refresh), a little window slid down from the top of the display (where
date and time are shown) indicating a problem. When I looked at the
details, it was a crash or abort of PackageKit. I clicked the button in
the problem reporter to submit a bug on this. The problem had already
been reported by many other people. I believe the main bug is #1480846
(see "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1480846", comment 68).
Despite these problems, the patches did seem to complete successfully.
So I'm not really clear on what you mean when you say that dnf does
not depend on PackageKit.
You have the dependency backward. PackageKit uses libdnf.