Re: F20 Self Contained Change: Application Installer

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> > Yes, if you want to put it that way. We want to use a backend that can
> > supported the desired user experience.
> > 
> > The hawkey stack is groomed to replace yum anyway. All we're asking is
> > that we can use it early, so we can provide the testing exposure they
> > need and ensure that hawkey does actually support the things we need.
> > 
> > Without that, there's a very real danger that hawkey/dnf end up
> > producing a perfect copy of yum (including all of the problems)...
> 
> Don't worry, that's not gonna happen. Hawkey has been built on top of libsolv
> library that implements a different solver than yum uses. Under no
> circumstances will this change. The more likely scenario is that gnome-
> software/PackageKit will be forced by the policy to use the old yum which
> will
> make future adoption of dnf much more difficult.

So, do I understand you correctly that you as Yum/Dnf guys would be ok to
have a different backend for GUI and non-GUI use cases as mentioned in
this thread and agreed by FESCo previously? I'd be more than happy to
see your sign off for this change and state this too there.

Jaroslav

> Thanks
> Jan
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