[packagekit] FOSScamp discussion notes

Patryk Zawadzki patrys at pld-linux.org
Tue May 27 05:46:45 PDT 2008


On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 12:20 +0100, James Westby wrote:
>>     Fedora: <a href="pk://DeviceKit">DeviceKit</a>
>>     Debian/Ubuntu: <a href="pk://devicekit">DeviceKit</a>
> Why not say: Install the package that provides /usr/bin/devicekit-foo
>
> This should be more constant across distros.

I agree. Forcing distros to provide additional mappings sounds like a
great way to get really slow adoption.

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Patryk Zawadzki
PLD Linux Distribution


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