[packagekit] Anjuta and PackageKit

[Richard Hughes]

On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 15:56 +0100, Jan Niklas Hasse wrote:
> What about using a package catalog? Isn't that a perfect solution
> since every distribution could then send a patch upstream to add their
> necessary lines to the catalog files. The advantage would be that
> people compiling the upstream tarball wouldn't need to patch anjuta
> first to get this feature.

That's another way to do it, although I think it's cleaner using a DBUS
API and then you get all the window stuff, and pretty good integration
with your application.

Catalogs were really designed for forums and mailing lists, where it
makes it very easy to share a "recipe" of installed software.

Richard.