FC7 plan comments

[Garrick Staples]

On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 01:05:46AM -0500, seth vidal alleged:
> 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?

Can't we get a root process running from the system dbus in response to
a user applet running?

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