[packagekit] pkcon and familiarity

[Richard Hughes]

On Sun, 2008-04-13 at 19:07 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> 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 all the time?

Yup, exactly that reason. If you enable yum2 in the PackageKit.conf file
then it's all so much quicker. Unfortunately, we've not yet mastered
cancelling, but it's 90% the way there.

Richard.