[packagekit] pkcon and familiarity

[Rahul Sundaram]

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?

Rahul