Re: strange authentication request (GNOME)

2013-05-30 Thread Matej Kosik
On 29/05/13 11:59, Brad Rogers wrote: On Wed, 29 May 2013 10:47:55 +0100 Matej Kosik 5764c029b688c1c0d24a2e97cd7...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Matej, The reason seems to be that, from now on, GNOME cannot be installed without PackageKit. :-/ Oh dear. Maybe removal of the GNOME

Re: strange authentication request (GNOME)

2013-05-30 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 30 May 2013 09:38:11 +0100 Matej Kosik 5764c029b688c1c0d24a2e97cd7...@gmail.com wrote: GNOME KDE somewhat increase the fragmentation. I'm (reasonably) sure they're not the only people of working to their own end. {snip} as if, GNOME was somehow special and deserved special treatment.

Re: strange authentication request (GNOME)

2013-05-30 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-05-30 at 12:09 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: On Thu, 30 May 2013 09:38:11 +0100 Matej Kosik 5764c029b688c1c0d24a2e97cd7...@gmail.com wrote: GNOME KDE somewhat increase the fragmentation. I'm (reasonably) sure they're not the only people of working to their own end. {snip} as

Re: strange authentication request (GNOME)

2013-05-29 Thread Matej Kosik
On 28/05/13 16:38, Brad Rogers wrote: On Tue, 28 May 2013 16:16:36 +0100 Matej Kosik 5764c029b688c1c0d24a2e97cd7...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Matej, On my desktop (squeeze), I've noticed the following authentication request ... attached {etc.} Do you use update-notifier? That is, is the

Re: strange authentication request (GNOME)

2013-05-29 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 29 May 2013 10:47:55 +0100 Matej Kosik 5764c029b688c1c0d24a2e97cd7...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Matej, The reason seems to be that, from now on, GNOME cannot be installed without PackageKit. :-/ Oh dear. Maybe removal of the GNOME meta-package will allow you to remove PackageKit. If

Re: strange authentication request (GNOME)

2013-05-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 09:16:06PM +0400, recovery...@gmail.com wrote: Then, Debian got aptitude, and couple of years later RedHat was like 'up2date is bad, we need something else, let's borrow yum from one of our derivatives'. yum usually gets the job done, if you don't mind wait a little.

Re: strange authentication request (GNOME)

2013-05-29 Thread Conrad Nelson
On 05/29/2013 04:47 AM, Matej Kosik wrote: On 28/05/13 16:38, Brad Rogers wrote: On Tue, 28 May 2013 16:16:36 +0100 Matej Kosik5764c029b688c1c0d24a2e97cd7...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Matej, On my desktop (squeeze), I've noticed the following authentication request ... attached {etc.} Do you

Re: strange authentication request (GNOME)

2013-05-29 Thread recoverym4n
On Thu, 30 May 2013 01:32:27 +1200 Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: I am fairly sure that aptitude came AFTER synaptic! While I don't argue with that (I started using Debian when etch was testing), on my Debian system changelogs for aptitude and synaptic clearly show that

Re: strange authentication request (GNOME)

2013-05-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 08:39:00PM +0400, recovery...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 30 May 2013 01:32:27 +1200 Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: I am fairly sure that aptitude came AFTER synaptic! While I don't argue with that (I started using Debian when etch was testing),

Re: strange authentication request (GNOME)

2013-05-28 Thread recoverym4n
On Tue, 28 May 2013 16:16:36 +0100 Matej Kosik 5764c029b688c1c0d24a2e97cd7...@gmail.com wrote: Is this some new dpkg/apt frontend or something unrelated? Hi. Yep, new one. Called PackageKit, brought to you by the same people, who are responsible for PulseAudio, ConsoleKit, GNOME3 and systemd.

Re: strange authentication request (GNOME)

2013-05-28 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 28 May 2013 16:16:36 +0100 Matej Kosik 5764c029b688c1c0d24a2e97cd7...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Matej, On my desktop (squeeze), I've noticed the following authentication request ... attached {etc.} Do you use update-notifier? That is, is the update-notifier package installed? If yes,