Re: F20 Self Contained Change: Application Installer

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On 12. 7. 2013 at 11:33:19, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 7:38 AM, Miloslav Trmač <mitr@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I haven't seen Toshio's mail, so I apologize for possible redundancy:
> Yeah, sorry, I got caught in the replying-to-docs-list trap.  here's
> what I had written (mostly the same as you but I also flagged things
> that I thought could push this into system-wide change territory):
> 
> On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 01:02:24PM +0200, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
> > * Replace gpkg-update-viewer
> > * Include a hawkey backend in PackageKit and use it
> 
> These two in combination make this a system-wide change.  Current policy is
> that:
> 
> "The RPM package installation GUI that is installed by default should use
> the same dependency solver/backend as the non-GUI default."
> 
> https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/669#comment:24
> 
> So we'd need to move to hawkey for the non-GUI default as well.  Is the
> packaging team ready to make that shift for F20?

No, there is still at least several months of intensive work ahead of us if we 
don't want the shift to end up as an epic fail.

> A shift to replace (as opposed to supplementing) a package-centric view to
> an application-centric view might also be a system-wide change.  I think
> I incline towards this still being a self-contained change as the non-GUI
> offering will continue to be package-centric (so it's supplementing) but
> I could be convinced otherwise.

Thanks
Jan
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