Re: new criterion proposal: Graphical package managers (take #2)

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On Fri, 2022-01-21 at 18:20 -0500, John Mellor wrote:
> 
> Ok, so would that allowance not violate 2 of the proposed criteria:
> 
>  1. * The displayed state of software or software sources must not
>     differ from their actual state. (E.g. an RPM package must not be
>     shown as installed when it is not, a repository must not be shown as
>     disabled or missing when it is enabled, etc).
>  2. * The package manager must never make the system enter an
>     inconsistent or unbootable state. (E.g. damage the local software
>     database, remove wrong system files, break the bootloader, etc).

We probably should carve out an allowance there, in fact, yeah. Kamil,
what do you think?
> 
> Or is the purpose of this document just to provide validation criteria 
> for the existing installer behaviour?

Yeah, as I wrote, that's the point of release criteria: they define the
most important parts of existing behaviour. We're not designing *new* 
desired behaviour here.
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