[packagekit] Properties and Supported

Patryk Zawadzki patrys at pld-linux.org
Tue Feb 19 08:11:48 PST 2008


On Feb 19, 2008 5:03 PM, Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 16:59 +0100, Patryk Zawadzki wrote:
> > Later on I learn that part of the system is going to be designed
> > around a single third-party vendor (Canonical).
> Do you mean PackageKit? If so, I think it's important to discuss ways of
> working with canonical, and making changes to the API if it's sane to do
> so. At the moment we've just added a supported filter, and I guess I'll
> be also adding a supported boolean in GetDescription. I can't see many
> big changes there. I don't want to get in the way of ubuntu, but I don't
> want the system designed around it.

I mean having "supported" in the API is one thing but actually
discussing what values each distro needs is something to do much later
unless the downstream is willing to put their own labor on the task.

-- 
Patryk Zawadzki
PLD Linux Distribution



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