I am well aware that this issue has been known for a long time. However, is such an action okay? Is it enough to remove the user from the wheel group?

You should never, ever use packagekit on an Arch-based distro to install or update packages. Packagekit by design doesn’t allow any user intervention and Arch requires user intervention in many cases. If you even try to use discover with packagekit you will get this nasty message: [Screenshot_20…

What are you doing in discover that should require a password? You should never use discover for package management on an Arch-based distro and installing flatpaks and plasma widgets doesn’t require a password.

I simply mean the fact of such packagekit behavior. The user does not know that the applications are installed in another space and thus it is not safe. This surprises me, because discover is an integral part of plasma and packagekit is its dependency.

[image] matadrox: discover is an integral part of plasma and packagekit is its dependency. @matadrox This may be true, in general. But as far as any Arch based distro goes, Discover is not NOT integral in any way. Nor should it be. As @dalto said… “You should never, ever use packagekit on an …

I understand all this. just wanted to point it out, because in general less informed users are very keen to use Discover even to perform a system update. Thank you gentlemen for all the information.

[image] matadrox: just wanted to point it out, because in general less informed users are very keen to use Discover even to perform a system update. Even you installed Discover which we don’t include in the default install, you would have to know to manually install packagekit-qt6 or you won’…

To be honest, I haven’t checked if EOS offers Discover because I don’t use it. It’s good to hear that it doesn’t.

I have a question: are there any good GUI software installers that can be used on Arch/EndeavourOS? I use Discover to manage Flatpaks and Plasma add-ons. I use EndeavourOS’ terminal tools (yay) to install updates to system packages and non-Flatpak applications. However, yay is not a good tool for f…

[image] How to use Discover on EndeavourOS Newbie i have installed discover gui but it is not working, it prints: endeavousos is not configured for installing apps throught discover [image] why it is not working? and how to make it working? Here’s some discussion …

[SOLVED]Discover in Plasma does not ask for a password

Desktop Environments Plasma

Dinomonster January 18, 2025, 1:41pm 10

Here’s some discussion considering this. Just ignore the part where it gets really odd.