PackageKit purpose?

[Ranjan Maitra]

On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 16:33:31 +0000 Andy Blanchard <zocalo at gmail.com>
wrote:

> PackageKit isn't one of my favourite parts of Fedora, but a lot of the
> problems people are having and citing here are not actually to do with
> PackageKit but are in fact the fault of Apper.  If you don't mind doing
> manual updates with yum, then uninstalling Apper might make your life a lot
> easier.
> 
> Re. removing it on Rawhide, that's certainly an improved situation that on
> FC16.  Just did an "rpm --erase --test" on all the PackageKit RPMs and got
> "gnome-packagekit" and "gnome-settings-daemon" as dependencies.  Adding
> those packages to the rpm command adds "gnome-power-manager", "gdm" and
> "control-center" to the dependencies list, a few more iterations and the
> complete list for FC16 is:
> 
> PackageKit*
> bluez
> control-center
> gdm
> gnome-bluetooth
> gnome-packagekit
> gnome-power-manager
> gnome-settings-daemon
> gnome-shell
> pulseaudio-gdm-hooks
> pulseaudio-module-bluetooth
> 

Correct! But I guess these should not be needed. Btw, I don't have
apper installed.

Ranjan