Richard Hughes (hughsient@xxxxxxxxx) said: > I've blogged about package management in Fedora (and how it sucks in > other distros too) and also discussed abstract per-system package > management over DBUS interfaces. > > I would appreciate feedback on > http://hughsient.livejournal.com/31429.html either on the blog as > comments, personal email, or just cc'd to the list. We've actually discussed this before. Basically, with the current state of yum-updatesd: 1) we could make it dumber. Dead simple; doesn't have modes to install updates, etc. All it does is check for new metadata - it's possible that it doesn't even check it against what you have installed. Simple == predictable. 2) we could make it smarter. A full package management system - all tools run unpriveleged and simply call into it. This is more along the lines of what you suggested, albeit tied solely to RPM/yum. Frankly, I don't care as much about it working with .deb, or Solaris pkgadd, or whatever. Others may differ, but I wonder if the effort required to coerce all of them to a common API would a) be sanely possible b) leave you with enough of a common API to do anything useful. Bill -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
