[packagekit] GetUpdates

[Richard Hughes]

On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 10:44 -0400, Ken VanDine wrote:
> For the conary backend, refresh cache and get updates are completely
> unrelated, since we don't look at the cache for updates.  However, I
> do agree refreshing cache should be the first operation, and let it
> run periodically.  I would also like a way to manually trigger get
> updates.  Perhaps in pk-update-icon, add a 3rd item for "Look for
> updates".

What does RefreshCache actually do with the conary backend?

> Also, people have complained about the icon coming and going,
> confusing.  Perhaps we really should just leave the icon in the
> systray, and allow all the actions to be launched from there.

I've now made it go away straight away after doing an action, rather
than waiting for the dameon to timeout.

Richard.