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. >

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 treatmen

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)

2013-05-29 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 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 syste

Re: strange authentication request (GNOME)

2013-05-29 Thread recoverym4n
On Thu, 30 May 2013 01:32:27 +1200 Chris Bannister 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 aptitude was first, and syn

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 Kosik<5764c029b688c1c0d24a2e97cd7...@gmail.com> wrote: Hello Matej, On my desktop (squeeze), I've noticed the following "authentication request" ... attached {etc.} Do

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 lit

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 t

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?

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

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 system

strange authentication request (GNOME)

2013-05-28 Thread Matej Kosik
Hi, On my desktop (squeeze), I've noticed the following "authentication request" ... attached When I clicked on "more details" and the provided links, it leads to: http://www.packagekit.org/pk-intro.html I am confused. Is this some new dpkg/apt frontend or something unrelated? It somehow auto