Re: strange authentication request (GNOME)

[Conrad Nelson <yaro@marupa.net>]

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<5764c029b688c1c0d24a2e97cd764f@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, that's why you're seeing PackageKit now;  The last
> > update of update-notifier was a transition to PackageKit.
> No, update-notifier package was not installed.
>
> The reason seems to be that, from now on, GNOME cannot be installed without PackageKit. :-/
That sounds about typical of the way GNOME does things nowadays, 
depending on things a lot of Linux desktop users find "vile."

Though personally I do like systemd. I wish Debian used it by default.