[packagekit] libpackagekit-gnome

[Richard Hughes]

On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 20:54 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> That's latter is what I'm suggesting. The point is this: we don't want
> any random application to automatically install stuff without the
> users consent. This is just a matter of putting the user in control
> and general courtesy towards the user to keep him in the loop. Hence
> the click "OK to proceed". (The authentication bits are orthogonal to
> this)

Yup. I was going to do that in the libpackagekit-gnome shared library
(already uses gconf and gtk for this) but you could equally well do this
in another process.

> The difference is that in the future gpk-update-icon can be locked
> down once we have a secure windowing system and a secure toolkit and
> we invest time in auditing the relatively few LOC that is in
> gpk-update-icon.

Valid. I admit I don't know the first thing about secure windowing
systems, but it makes sense what you are saying.

Richard.