Thoughts on PackageKit being a hard-dependency

Bill McGonigle bill at bfccomputing.com
Fri Apr 29 16:14:56 UTC 2011


On 04/29/2011 05:52 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Only a groupinstall will pull it in, not a groupupdate. And at this time,
> there's no automated way to re-groupinstall all the previously installed
> groups, the user would have to yum groupinstall them all.

IMO, that's too high a hurdle for average users, just to save some disk 
space.

I have PackageKit installed, rarely use it if ever, and it doesn't get 
in my way.

-Bill

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