[packagekit] Live upgrade

[Rahul Sundaram]

Stanislav Visnovsky wrote:
> Dňa Monday 31 March 2008 14:24:39 Rahul Sundaram ste napísal:
>> Stanislav Visnovsky wrote:
>>> Dňa Monday 31 March 2008 14:14:22 Rahul Sundaram ste napísal:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> In Fedora 9, one of the planned features is a kind of a live upgrade
>>>> option
>>>>
>>>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/PreUpgrade
>>>>
>>>> I saw that the Ubuntu update applet shows the next release as an update
>>>> option too where applicable. Maybe a live upgrade to next release like
>>>> functionality can be part of pk-update-viewer? I am not sure if enough
>>>> details can be abstracted but it is worth considering IMO.
>>> I'm not sure at all that a distribution upgrade is something a regular
>>> user should do.
>> Well if a regular user has done the installation in the first place, who
>> else should be doing the distribution upgrade?
> 
> What if it was not the regular user that did the installation?

This is the similar case to when the user does have the root password to 
use PackageKit itself and the result is same. The user does not have 
access to the functionality provided.  The question really is, assuming 
the user has access, does the functionality in question make sense.

Rahul