[packagekit] running without a head via cron

[Richard Hughes]

On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 16:39 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> But I am inclined to agree that PackageKit isn't the place for it either.

Sure.

> Perhaps the best thing is for the pkcron application to produce no output
> whatsoever except to log results (and dbus messages? I admit to not being
> fully up to speed there) and have some way of telling something when it's
> done, at which point a second program takes that logged output and sends a
> report. This can of course be the standard system log reporter (logwatch or
> epylog), but many people want to know about package updates immediately, not
> the next morning (especially when action may be required).

Could pkcon just output parse-friendly output (or even XML)?

Richard.