Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (956 mails)

[todd rme <toddrme2178@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Rajko M. <rmatov101@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Saturday, October 08, 2011 11:31:13 PM Steven Sroka wrote:
> > Hey all,
> >
> > I was just reading over some threads on this list and noticed a few
> > things here and there about KPackageKit. I understand that it was
> > included by default in 11.4 because the Update Applet was
> > unmaintained, but isn't Yast2 Installer perfectly able to do updates?
> > Was KPackageKit needed just because Yast doesn't remind users about
> > updates?
>
> Which cron job can do perfectly without buggy KPackageKit (KPK).
>
> My complains from the time I used it:
> 1) KPK can't finish transactions, or not in time comparable to zypper or YaST.
> As background process, that should not slow down computer without notifying
> that is running, it can be understandable that makes it slower, but hanging
> forever and blocking package management is annoying.
> 2) It is sometimes stuck completely in endless repetition of updates that are
> already done.
> 3) It wakes up on its own, much more often then it is set, and blocks zypper
> or yast. I can tolerate clash with KPK once a day, but not 4-5 times a day.
> Not reading its own configuration makes it uncontrollable annoyance.
> 4) It is set to make all updates, not only security. This is convenient for
> lazy boys, but it is stupid as in case of problems pile of software that one
> has to check is bigger.

I had these problems before, but since I switched to apper all of them
seem to have disappeared.

-Todd
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