[packagekit] Dropping support for rollback?

Mounir Lamouri mounir.lamouri at gmail.com
Thu Sep 3 05:46:07 PDT 2009


On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Richard Hughes<hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't think any of the backends support rollback, even the conary
> one. There's quite a bit of code in the server and clients to support
> this, but if nothing is going to use it I think it makes sense to rip
> it out. Comments?

I don't really see the need of rollback for the user. For sure, it
can't be something to be used as easily as CTRL+Z (undo/redo). So if
it has to exit it can be something in a menu.
In addition, I don't see a lot of things that should be rollbacked:
installl/remove and enable/disable repository ? In this case, I think
the client can implement that himself. If the user install a package,
he can add in a menu: 'Uninstall foo'. If it has been uninstalled, it
will be'Reinstall foo'. The same thing for repositories.

What do you think about this ? :)

Mounir


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