SEAlert seems to need pakagekit

[shmuel siegel]

shmuel siegel wrote:
> Richard Hughes wrote:
>> 2009/8/30 shmuel siegel <fedora at shmuelhome.mine.nu>:
>>  
>>> On an up to date fc12 i686 system (I got there with preupdate from 
>>> fc11) I
>>> occassionally get one of the stars on the panel that says that there 
>>> is a
>>> selinux error (I am running in permissive mode). But when I open the 
>>> dialog
>>> box I see that it complains that it can't find packagekit.frontend. 
>>> Not very
>>> surprising since I don't have packagekit on my system. Shouldn't 
>>> there have
>>> been a dependency problem? package-cleanup says that everything is 
>>> okay.
>>>     
>>
>> Something needs to add a Requires: PackageKit to it's spec file.
>>
>> Richard.
>>
>>   
> A better fix is don't require packagekit. Or make it so that this 
> external can be satisfied without packagekit. Packagekit runs when it 
> wants and interferes with running yum from the command line. I would 
> prefer to not have it. If I could have it but set it to not run, that 
> would also be okay.
>
I don't know enough about python to know if I am right but 
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setroubleshoot/browser.py imports 
packagekit.frontend but never seems to use it. I will remove the 
offending line and see what happens. It can't be any worse than it is now.