Re: Feature Proposal: Use cases database

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On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 17:42 +0200, Christoph Höger wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 10.09.2008, 16:14 +0100 schrieb Richard Hughes:
> > On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 01:23 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> > > Even better than talking about it would be creating the exact package 
> > > lists that best enable a variety of use cases and a handy way of
> > > telling yum/packagekit to duplicate them on your machine.  Then anyone
> > > else who needed to do the same thing would have a push-button choice.
> > > The idea should be that anyone could 'publish' their installed package
> > > set and describe why they think it is best for a particular use, and
> > > anyone who was convinced by their description/reputation, etc. could
> > > just clone that setup.
> > 
> > PackageKit already supports catalogs, which is pretty much what you
> > describe.
> > 
> > Have a look here http://www.packagekit.org/pk-faq.html#catalogs and tell
> > me if that does what you need.
> > 
> Hey, that sounds nice, as it fits perfectly into the "detect what if I
> have all that software installed" hole. I assume there is an 'just
> check' mode or the user is at least prompted, what parts are missing?  

The user is just asked to install the stuff they haven't already got.
I'm not sure what the dialog looks like if you have nothing to install,
but I imaging it's that standard modal "nothing to install" dialog.

Richard.


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