[packagekit] pk-install-foo

Thomas Wood thomas at openedhand.com
Mon Mar 17 14:22:28 PDT 2008


On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 21:00 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> Currently we ship pk-install-package and pk-install-file in
> gnome-packagekit. gnome-packagekit depends on lots of gnome.
> 
> What about text only versions of pk-install-package in packagekit, and
> then rename the GUI tools to pk-install-package-gui?
> 
> The only difference is the -gui versions would throw up a GUI progress
> meter and display the errors in gtk modal boxes. It's a few lines of C
> so I'm not worried about code duplication.
> 
> Comments?

What's the advantage over pkcon?

Regards,

Thomas

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