[packagekit] Status of the APT backend

[Richard Hughes]

On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 15:09 -0500, Robin Norwood wrote:
> > Well, I think searching and installing applications is also a core
> use
> > case, but maybe we have to go back to the original use-cases and see
> > how well we are doing.
> 
> I think the 'application' concept is best handled in a webapp/web
> service context, with PackageKit providing the client-side abstraction
> of 'install this package'.

That's sane.

> There's just too much data already that we
> don't want to have to package up separately (desktop files, icons).
> Plus a web app/service can store and deal with lots of other data the
> packaging system doesn't want or need to deal with.

So, shall we remove the word "application" from the use cases and use
the word package instead?

Richard.