[packagekit] User Interaction needed

Patryk Zawadzki patrys at pld-linux.org
Wed Mar 12 16:06:01 PDT 2008


On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 11:51 PM, Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 16:26 -0600, Stanislav Visnovsky wrote:
>  > This assumes you  have enough space on the disk for the package cache.
>  Sure, yes, but we have to make a compromise somewhere. Doing it this way
>  gives us the benefit of fire-and-forget (when the transaction is
>  actually running) and also allows us to use multiple install media.

Yup but what happens when the user gets the "failed, we copied some
files, insert disc 2 and retry" (only better worded) and never does
the next step? He will end up with random uninstalled packages
cluttering his hdd.

-- 
Patryk Zawadzki
PLD Linux Distribution



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