I'm not sure how Yum works with GNOME since I don't use it. When I'm using F11 at home, with KDE4, and there's an update, a Packagekit plasmoid pops up and allow me the chance to review what it wants to update. I generally 'select all', but I have the option of selecting whatever I want to update (or not update). As extensive as the KDE portion of package management is, I find it hard to credit that the GNOME portion would be less capable. If you want to do this manually, since you seem to want to turn off the auto-update functions, my recommendation would be to install the "yumex" package to give yourself a GUI frontend to Yum. Then, whenever you feel like checking for updates, run yumex and get as far away from "Microsoftification" as possible. Yumex is a really nice graphical front end to Yum. I find I use it fairly often to verify what I may have installed, remove stuff I don't really need, see what packages offer a specific function (how many and what packages have "webcam" in their description?) It provides a lot of feedback on what it's doing that you may appreciate with a dialup account. Hope that helps. Gar Stuart McGraw wrote: > I take the lack of responses to my questions about the > software updater as being "no". Am I the only one bothered > by this Microsoftification (no status info, no control, > no documentation, you users just sit back, be happy, and > we will manage your machine for you)? I came to Linux to > get away from that kind of stuff. > > Anyway, I eventually figured out that System -> Preferences > -> Startup Applications is the place to turn it (and some > other unneeded pseudo-services) off. > -- "The contents of this message are mine personally and do not necessarily reflect any position of NOAA."
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