fedora 21 lets me install packages without root

Josh Boyer jwboyer at fedoraproject.org
Mon Oct 20 18:12:15 UTC 2014


On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 2:03 PM, Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 20 October 2014 18:00, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote:
>> uninstall anything in context of packagekit and just use yum
>
> Please stop giving advice like this. If you try to remove PackageKit
> you'll end up removing half of GNOME and probably make your system
> unbootable.

That's PackageKit-libs you're referring to.  If you remove PackageKit
itself only the yum backend and gnome-packagekit packages are brought
along with it.

josh


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