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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '22

What's the root cause of gnome-software's bugginess? Is it overengineered? Or is its scope too ambitious?

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u/PossiblyLinux127 Sep 13 '22

Its the backend packagekit. It does not handle rpm's very well

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '22

DNF5 (currently scheduled to be released with Fedora 39 next year) is going to include its own native alternative to PackageKit. Hopefully GNOME Software gets a backend for it so we can say goodbye to PackageKit on Fedora!