On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Kamil Paral <kparal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > 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. >> >> Well, it's a bit more complicated than that. Obviously there would be a >> "problem" with both programs offering different combinations of packages in >> some >> cases. But combined with the fact that the use case/target group of users >> (applications vs. packages) is different for both, I don't think it would be >> that much of an issue. > > Wouldn't it be easier to keep gpk-application and gpk-update-viewer installed and set as default applications, and provide AppInstaller as an alternative, experimental program (also installed by default, perhaps)? In F20 conservative users could continue using gpk-* and interested users could start playing with AppInstaller. In F21 AppInstaller can be deemed stable and gpk-* can be removed from the default install. No .. having two completely different user interfaces / experiences for the same thing does not make much sense. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
