[packagekit] Downloading items to the native cache

Tim Lauridsen tim.lauridsen at googlemail.com
Wed Mar 4 01:57:22 PST 2009


Richard Hughes wrote:
> One idea I think we should play with for the new update viewer is the
> potential to download updates and not install them. For instance, you
> might only want to install the newest gtk unstable when you shut down
> your computer, or at log out time. Or you may just want to use the high
> speed university network, and install the updates on-by-one at home.

I dont think this kind of advanced features/usercases fits well in the update dialog
if you want novice user to use it.

All this kind of cracky stuff, will just confuse the novice users and make it easier to
do something wrong.

Keep it simple !

Advanced user can use use other tools to do this

Tim



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