PackageKit in Fedora 15 (beta)

[Ilyes Gouta]

Hi,

I filed a bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699263

<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699263>-Ilyes

On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net>wrote:

>
>
> Am 24.04.2011 20:04, schrieb Ilyes Gouta:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Removing PackageKit In Fedora 14 was easy and painless since it causes up
> to 5 packages, all *really* related to
> > PackageKit in the form of a yum-plugin and few other things.
> >
> > On Fedora 15, trying to "yum remove PackageKit" causes the system to
> attempt removing up to 74 MB worth of
> > software, including gdm, empathy, bluez and gnome-shell !!!! Which is
> pointless.
> >
> > Is it *really* required to have PackageKit so deeply integrated and made
> an essential package on the system. AFAIK,
> > it's essentially a helper and a front-end for yum, right?
> >
> > Is it possible to recover Fedora 14's lightweight dependencies set, for
> PackageKit?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -Ilyes
>
> generellay the dependecies are getting bigger with every release
> it should be possible to install a leightweigt system
>
> yes, hard-disk are getting cheaper but time!
> on the other hand running 20-30 Fedora VMs on a SAN-Storage
> disk space is not so cheap as at home and the overhead multiplies
>
> means: i like to remove everything that is not active used because
> distupgrades and normal updates are much bigger and especially on
> servers everything which is not installed is not vulnerable
>
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