[packagekit] pkcon and familiarity

[Rahul Sundaram]

Stanislav Visnovsky wrote:
> Dňa Sunday 13 April 2008 21:43:14 Rahul Sundaram ste napísal:
>> Hi
>>
>> I suggested at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=439335 to
>> make pkcon command line same or similar to the existing equivalents in
>> yum, apt-get, smart etc. Assuming this is a end user facing utility as
>> opposed to a API testing utility, I think pkcon just is unnecessarily
>> different. Note that I am not talking about making pkcon 1:1 equivalent
>> because some of the operations in one package manager doesn't map to
>> another and there isn't way to abstract them neatly but common
>> operations like install/remove/update/upgrade/list etc can be. What are
>> the potential use cases for using pkcon as opposed to the native command
>> line package manager?
>>
>> * I like the integration with policykit
>> * users might be evaluating different distributions
>> * different distribution in office vs home or server vs desktop
>> * developing a quick bash script that does common operations across
>> multiple distributions
>>
>> Not having to learn/unlearn different quirks in between command line
>> utilties that essentially does the same job in between distribution is
>> very useful. Comments?
> 
> This might be interesting for you:
> 
> http://en.opensuse.org/Software_Management_Command_Line_Comparison

That's useful information. What is the license of the content in the 
website?

Rahul