On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 7:36 PM, Joshua Andrews <woodguy552010@yahoo.com> wrote:
I had packagekit to check for updates once a day but it seem like every 2 minutes yumBackend.py is running using a lot of CPU.

I set Packagekit to check for updates never and yumBackend.py is still at it.. I'd like to use my CPU for more than just checking for updates.


Some upstream developers don't want to give you a choice to uninstall packagekit :)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699348

yum remove gnome-packagekit, should remove the gui parts.

A hack to disable the backend is to edit

/etc/PackageKit/PackageKit.conf

and change

DefaultBackend=yum

to 

DefaultBackend=nobackend

Then you get PackageKit out of you face.

Tim