On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 14:34 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 14:04 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> On 8/21/07, David Zeuthen <davidz(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>
>
> - Note that "default in mainline Fedora" doesn't preclude the
> desktop
> spin from using PackageKit instead of Pirut.
>
> Hmm. That seems like a really big change to be making from mainline
> in a spin. I think a good goal for spin changes is to think hard
> about putting in changes that we do want to go down into the OS in
> general.
Hey, let's not get carried away; this is not a OS-level change, it's, in
effect, simply just another UI frontend for yum, not much different from
pirut/pup, yumex, whatever except that it's designed to solve the
problem in a much nicer way (at least some of us think) both from a
technical point and an user experience point of view. There's no reason
to fear change.
From a technical point it doesn't solve the problem in a different
way
at all. I've been helping Richard with scripts to backend packagekit
with yum and the scripts are extremely simple. To be clear - some of the
user experience items are really just papering over the security
questions and hoping no one notices that right now PackageKit is the
equivalent of:
yum -y do_whatever_just_be_quiet_about_it.
-sv