[packagekit] pk-install-foo

[Patryk Zawadzki]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 9:25 PM, Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 07:08 -0400, Ken VanDine wrote
> > Not really, it provides a list of results with packageid.
>  [hughsie at hughsie-laptop src]$ pkcon install octave
>  resolve runtime was 4.6 seconds
>  downloading  octave               i386    6:3.0.0-2.fc8   updates high-level language for numerical computations
>  installing   octave               i386    6:3.0.0-2.fc8   updates
>  install-package runtime was 86.2 seconds
>
>  Seems to work okay for me - what do you get? I think if you are too
>  vague you get a choice with the text "There are multiple matches" and
>  then it bombs out. We should probably have a choice thing like we do for
>  "are you sure you want to remove..."

In PLD you get -devel and -debuginfo for each package matching the
spec name. The result is it returns a list of "matched" packages 90%
of the time even if only one is a perfect match.

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Patryk Zawadzki
PLD Linux Distribution