[packagekit] Service Packs, PackageKit (and Opyum)

[Debarshi Ray]

>> Actually a combination of both. You could take a look at my Summer Of
>> Code proposal: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SummerOfCode/2007/DebarshiRay
>> The "rationale" and "use cases" sections are what you should look at.
>> Please ask if something is not clear.

> No, looks good. How do you decide which deps are installed on the users
> computer? And also what if livna causes a dep failure?

I completely rely on Pirut's classes, which in turn use the Yum API.
The system-install-yumpacks tool is basically a hacked up version of
Fedora's system-install-packages utility which comes with the Pirut
package.

> Are you going to FOSDEM this year btw?

Unfortunately, no.

Cheers,
Debarshi
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