FC7 plan comments

[Bill Nottingham]

Callum Lerwick (seg at haxxed.com) said: 
> On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 22:30 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > While we are talking about bugs and daemons, can we maybe rewrite
> > yum-updatesd in a language that makes it use less than 10MB ? It is by
> > far the biggest of the useless daemons...
> 
> Why is it even a resident daemon?

It's used by the update applet - the applet queries it for available
updates, and by having the daemon resident, it saves bloat and slowness
in the applet. (Basically, the same code would have to be in one
place or the other...)

Bill