[packagekit] pkcon and familiarity

[Stanislav Visnovsky]

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

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