[packagekit] FOSScamp discussion notes

[Jan Niklas Hasse]

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 6:04 PM, Sebastian Heinlein <glatzor at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> E.g. for device drivers, there are already unique identification standards
>> that might be used. For codecs, mime-type might be the way to go, etc.
>>
>> For app plugins, we might end up with interface
>> quering '<application-name>:<app-specific-extension>', not much thought put
>> into this though.
>
> I don't see the need for a central database. I cannot believe that there
> is really such a large number of applications that would like to install
> additional software.
>
> So I think that it makes more sense to just a include a patch with the
> distribution specific mapping in the corresponding package.

Wouldn't it be enough to do a
SearchFile('/usr/share/myprogram/plugins/theplugin.so') and install
this package?