[packagekit] Multiple Package installation UI

[Robin Norwood]

On Fri, 16 May 2008 09:12:09 -0400
Casey Dahlin <cdahlin at redhat.com> wrote:

> The FAQ said you should post to this list if you have an idea for how 
> the UI should work for installing multiple packages at once. I have
> such an idea.
> 
> My idea involves more changes to yum or whatever is running beneath 
> package kit than package kit itself.
> 
> It would work like this:
> 
> 1) When the user clicks a package, it begins installing immediately
> (as it does now).
> 2) The user can still browse for more packages while the package is 
> downloading (this is the major change: write operations shouldn't
> block read only operations in the underlying package manager).
> 3) When the user clicks another package, it gets added to the task
> queue

Yup.  The thing is, we either need to cache the package data, so we can
browse while yum is doing other things, or someone needs to make it so
that yum can do query operations at the same time that it does
install/update/remove operations.  Right now doing both at once is
expressly forbidden as 'not safe' by the yum developers, and I don't
think it's on their roadmap to change this anytime soon. I'm not sure
about other backends.

-RN

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Robin Norwood
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