On Wed, 2020-12-02 at 21:58 +0100, Syds Bearda wrote:
Hi,
New question; I have both KDE and Gnome installed on my system to be able to test them both. However if I try to remove PackageKit it also wants to remove the following patterns/packages:
The following 6 packages are going to be REMOVED: PackageKit PackageKit-backend-zypp PackageKit-branding-openSUSE patterns-microos-desktop-gnome patterns-microos-desktop-kde plasma5-pk-updates
Why is PackageKit installed by default by both the Gnome and KDE desktop and what do we need it for? Updates and upgrades are done within transactional-update and are automatically initialised by transactional-update.timer.
Is it safe to remove it from my system, plus should we also remove it from the KDE/Gnome patterns?
In GNOME, PackageKit is a key requirement for gnome-software, which is our intended tool for installing flatpaks. So no, it's not safe to remove from your system unless you don't want a graphical way of installing user applications. I believe for KDE it's equally important for discover, which does the equivalent job to gnome-software for that DE. That said, the PackageKit-backend-zypp is extraneous and I'm certainly open to submissions that loosen the coupling between that backend and the PackageKit core. Regards, -- Richard Brown Linux Distribution Engineer - Future Technology Team Phone +4991174053-361 SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, D-90409 Nuernberg (HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg) Geschäftsführer: Felix Imendörffer