FC7 plan comments

seth vidal skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Thu Dec 21 06:05:46 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 22:02 -0800, Garrick Staples wrote:
> 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?)

so it launches as the user?

-sv





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