----- Original Message ----- > IMO, this needs some further thought and feedback to the user. In the > current package scenario, what if the application that I am updating > has > the kernel as a dep (somewhere in the dep chain). This might result > in > the system also silently and automatically updating some additional > "applications" that the user did not specify to update, even though > they > are in the list of applications. In essence, a simple application > installation may silently force something equivalent to an "OS > Update" > when all the user wanted to do was install an update to firefox. An application installer certainly works best if you have actual applications to install - ie self-contained pieces of software. If everything is glued together into a big ball by dependencies it won't work well. But this is something that can be gradually improved. -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
