[packagekit] Properties and Supported

[Sebastian Heinlein]

Am Dienstag, den 19.02.2008, 11:25 -0500 schrieb Robin Norwood:
> On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:03:12 +0000
> 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'm not convinced about the whole 'supported' thing myself, since there
> are many different meanings of the word.  But, if the guys working on
> that backend think it's useful, it doesn't really impact other backends
> that much.  The yum backend can either ignore it, or if we can find a
> useful definition, we can include it.  I do think PK should make clear
> somehow what 'supported' means in that context, though.  That's up to
> the guys working on that backend though, I guess.

I am not a marketing guy. So perhaps we should ask the ones from
distributions what their needs would be. Especially in the case of
handling extra repositories.

Does RedHat plan to use PackageKit in its cooperate edition?

Cheers,

Sebastian
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