PackageKit in Fedora 15 (beta)

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 12:25:16AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> On 04/24/2011 11:54 PM, Ilyes Gouta wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I filed a bug:  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699263
> >
> > -Ilyes
> 
> PackageKit isn't just a yum frontend and is likely to be integrated more
> and more with key components as we go forward.  If you aren't actively
> using the GNOME or KDE frontend, just remove those and leave the
> framework as it is. 

PackageKit frequently *breaks* the yum command line, because it has
some unkillable (self-resurrecting) process that acquires a lock and
prevents yum from running.  It's a bug that we can't remove it.

Rich.

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