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Fedora 34 Workstation (GNOME) with only gnome-software and packagekit removed idles at 650MB. This is because the Fedora repositories are very large due to all
by SubzeroCarnage 5y ago
Fedora 34 Workstation (GNOME) with only gnome-software and packagekit removed idles at 650MB.
This is because the Fedora repositories are very large due to all their extra metadata and the inefficiencies of the yum packagekit backend. GNOME Software also always keeps its UI loaded even when not open.
You might also want to free up some space afterwards: sudo rm -rfv /var/cache/packagekit
PackageKit is nice because it allows (not so great [1]) offline updates. GNOME Software is nice because it allows your typical user to update and install software.
[1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software/-/issues/181 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software/-/issues/181
- vbezhenar 5y agoOffline updates are doable with dnf: dnf offline-upgrade download dnf offline-upgrade reboot I'm not completely sure, but I think that gnome-software just uses those commands. Those commands are provided by python3-dnf-plugin-system-upgrade package which is installed by default in workstation set.
- SubzeroCarnage 5y agoOffline updates via dnf and packagekit are handled via systemd afaik. gnome-software never directly calls dnf, it is solely a frontend for packagekit (and flatpak and fwupd).