The device can be automatically mounted. It can be checked by its label that is the original label released with the distro. I think that should exists a relation between packages and the repositories on a cached manner. If the repository is on a umounted device (USB, CD/DVD-ROM) and is not possible to find it on a online repository or does not exist a active Internet connection, should be prompted to the user to put / plug the device and a additional thread is on background checking if the device is mounted by label. A timeout should be used on check thread to does not put the PackageKit to sleep forever waiting the path to be mounted. Should exists a functionality to collect data from the repositories on media, giving the user the chance to put each DVD/CD on a scanning process that is stored on the yum / PackageKit database. Should exists a configuration option to try to search first on offline repositories giving the user the chance to try use the media before try to download packages from Internet. I think that with this the PackageKit is not the responsible to mount the media. Only ideas. Thank you. Best regards. On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 5:08 AM, Andrew Haley <aph@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 05/09/2010 02:28 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: >> On 09/05/10 13:34, Hedayat Vatankhah wrote: > >>> If you have not see this at all, I've seen this frequently. Fedora >>> sucks in this area for many years. I've seen it, so whatever >>> arguments you bring; I KNOW that this bug IS very important and >>> should be fixed. >> >> Currently there are various threads, about what Fedora is targeted at, >> those questions as yet rmein without a proper answr. >> >>> Excuse me, I'm looking for a solution, not for wiping the problem >>> statement. >> >> The solution for a new user to Linux, give hime Ubuntu-LTS. >> When he knows some more, give him Fedora. > > This is a bad argument IMO. Many users are advanced in some areas, > but not others. The whole idea that "Fedora is a distro for advanced > users therefore it should be hard to use" is absurd. The ability to > install packages from a DVD just as easily as from the repos would be > useful to a great many. > > Andrew. > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > -- _______________________________ Allann J. O. Silva "I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library. For an impoverished child whose family could not afford to buy books, the library was the open door to wonder and achievement, and I can never be sufficiently grateful that I had the wit to charge through that door and make the most of it." (from I. Asimov, 1994) -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
