PackageKit (was: Re: Aren't upgrades demanding too much restarts?)

[Michael Schwendt]

On Wed, 1 Sep 2010 11:41:50 +0100, Richard wrote:

> > I've tried hard not to turn it off in F13 and F14 Branched, so I could
> > test it, … but it is just plain annoying to see it fail due to a broken
> > dependency and then refuse to remove itself from the notification area.
> > That's too much of a distraction for me.
> 
> Can't you just change the preferences to check for updates "Never"?

?? Also with F13?
Then I could return to running "yum -y update --skip-broken" instead of
letting an autostarted desktop app be "more convenient". Right?

> Also, you forgot to point to bugzillas in your email.

There is no bugzilla ticket about it, because I simply don't have the time
to open tickets for _every_ issue I run into and have
 - package maintainers possibly ignore the tickets for months,
and
 - dist EOL bug autoclosing scripts force me to re-examine dozens of issues.

So, typically I open only a limited number of tickets, and only if there
is progress, I will consider reporting further issues.

For some things it's simply much more easier to just disable it and move
on. Eventually, there will be another user to notice and report the same
issue, and that will spread the load. Or it's on some todo-list already.
Time will tell. Problems, such as the package list view paging up and
down automatically (and wildly) during download even if the user wants
to scroll manually, is a UI issue that won't go unnoticed forever.

> Removing itself
> from the icon after a failed dep update is probably a sane thing to
> do.
> 
> Richard.