Why is PackageKit needed for abrt?

Stephen Gallagher sgallagh at redhat.com
Mon Dec 12 20:42:05 UTC 2011


On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 12:36 -0800, Steven I Usdansky wrote:
> It appears that upgrading abrt in F16 from 2.0.6-1 to 2.0.7-2 is going
> to require installation of PackageKit, which I long ago purged from my
> system. Just wondering, why the additional requirement?
> 

ABRT will pull down debuginfo packages when you file a bug so the
backtrace is usable. So it needs to have PackageKit around to handle
acquiring those packages.
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