Re: PackageKit major annoyances

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On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 23:18 +0100, Mark wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:35 PM, Richard Hughes <hughsient@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > You probably need to file a bug about this. I normally add exactarch=1
> > in my yum.conf file, and I might even argue we should do this my
> > default.
> 
> I will fill a bug report about this. (once i find the packagekit bugzilla)

Default yum policy is a Red Hat bug.

> >> 3. Oke, mplayer is done installing now and now it asks me to run it..
> >> why? I really can't think of a valid reason to even ask the user that!
> >> it's pointless!
> >
> > You installed it for a reason, right? Surely if I'm compelled to install
> > a specific application, we should offer to run it? Why make the user
> > navigate the menus and find the correct name and icon?
> 
> No, you should not offer it to run. It's unexpected and not asked for behaviour.
> All other distros (that i've used) just install it and are done. They
> don't offer the option to run it. Fedora with packagekit somehow needs
> to act different and that shouldn't happen. Stick to the way other
> distros work and your fine. that's a proven way and works fine.

*bttzzt*

Just because PackageKit does things differently to other previous tools
doesn't mean the previous tools were doing things the right way. I'm
actually trying to shift the user away from manually installing packages
in a tool, and start installing them automatically at the point of use
instead.

See:
http://www.packagekit.org/img/gpk-client-codecs.png
http://www.packagekit.org/img/gpk-client-font.png
http://www.packagekit.org/img/gpk-client-mime-type.png

> > It didn't just look ugly, it had core architectural problems. PackageKit
> > is a different framework, not an application.
> 
> Another reason why it should mature first befora getting included in
> fedora as the default package management system

If you want a stable rock-solid system please use CentOS or RHEL. If you
want a system that features the latest technologies, use Fedora.

You can't just develop a new framework by hacking in a dark room for two
years, and then declaring it "finished" and shipping it in a distro.
Architectural changes like this need to evolve, and change as users
needs are discovered.

Users also have a habit of using the tools differently to what
developers envisage, which always leads to loads of bugs for every new
feature.

I also think I'm a pretty pro-active maintainer, as the version of
PackageKit in F9 started at 0.1.x and is now at 0.3.11 (which is the
same version as F10 FWIW). File valid bugs and I'll fix them. Sending
mails to a mailing list saying "I don't really like it" doesn't seem
such a useful thing to do.

Richard.


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