FC7 plan comments

Garrick Staples garrick at usc.edu
Thu Dec 21 06:02:19 UTC 2006


On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 12:52:58AM -0500, Bill Nottingham alleged:
> 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...)

Then how about it doesn't launch until the applet is launched (maybe
through dbus?)

-- 
Garrick Staples, Linux/HPCC Administrator
University of Southern California
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