On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 14:34 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote: > On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 14:04 -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > > On 8/21/07, David Zeuthen <davidz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > - Note that "default in mainline Fedora" doesn't preclude the > > desktop > > spin from using PackageKit instead of Pirut. > > > > Hmm. That seems like a really big change to be making from mainline > > in a spin. I think a good goal for spin changes is to think hard > > about putting in changes that we do want to go down into the OS in > > general. > > Hey, let's not get carried away; this is not a OS-level change, it's, in > effect, simply just another UI frontend for yum, not much different from > pirut/pup, yumex, whatever except that it's designed to solve the > problem in a much nicer way (at least some of us think) both from a > technical point and an user experience point of view. There's no reason > to fear change. > >From a technical point it doesn't solve the problem in a different way at all. I've been helping Richard with scripts to backend packagekit with yum and the scripts are extremely simple. To be clear - some of the user experience items are really just papering over the security questions and hoping no one notices that right now PackageKit is the equivalent of: yum -y do_whatever_just_be_quiet_about_it. -sv -- Fedora-desktop-list mailing list Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
