[packagekit] Getting updates whilst updating system

[Ken VanDine]

I vote for option 4, tell the user their the an update running...
possible wait or let the user re-queue.  But we should tell we are
"doing something".

--Ken

On 10/23/07, Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:
> If we are in the middle of a UpdateSystem call, and the user opens up
> the update viewer, what are we supposed to do?
>
> 1. Queue the transaction, so the user just gets the pulsating bar for
> ~15 minutes
> 2. Return "No updates available"
> 3. Return the cached list of updates that we are installing
>
> 1 is what we do now, and is less than great. 3 would let the user queue
> two update transactions, which probably isn't what we want.
>
> Comments?
>
> Richard.
>
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Ken VanDine
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