[packagekit] pkcon and familiarity

[David Zeuthen]

On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 04:32 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Richard Hughes wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 01:52 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: 
> >> * yum shell is very useful. I would like to see a pkcon equivalent.
> > 
> > What's the point in yum shell - AFAICT, it just saves you typing pkcon
> > in front of every transaction.
> 
> It allows you to batch process commands. IIRC, setting up a transaction 
> and tearing it down is what consumes a lot of time and yum shell does 
> that one single time. 

Yeah, 'yum shell' is a great example where developers add features
instead of fixing goddamn bugs in the underlying software. Such a cop
out. Anyway, back to the real world.. Isn't one point of PackageKit (and
the yum2 backend in particular) that we'd have a fast interactive
interface (e.g. the D-Bus interface) to the packaging system that can
keep an instance of the yum backend around so we don't need to init it
all the time?

    David