F10 installs new packages automatically behind your back

[Andre Robatino]

I just noticed a white popup on the lower right of my screen saying 
something like "Updates have been applied" which is odd since I have the 
default settings which should not allow automatic updates.  Looking in 
/var/log/yum.log I found

Dec 02 19:47:59 Installed: createrepo-0.9.6-3.fc10.noarch
Dec 02 19:47:59 Installed: 1:anaconda-yum-plugins-1.0-3.fc10.noarch
Dec 02 19:48:00 Installed: preupgrade-1.0.0-1.fc10.noarch

Not only did I not specify automatic updates, these are NOT updates - 
they weren't installed before, and nothing depends on them.  After 
noticing this, I uninstalled them without anything else being removed 
with them as dependencies.  A web search shows that this has been seen 
before:

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=203380

I suspect that a lot of people who search for these 3 packages in 
yum.log would see this.  I only noticed because I was looking at the 
screen at that exact time - but not manually running any package 
install/update utility, or even logged in as root.
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