[packagekit] FOSScamp discussion notes

[David Zeuthen]

On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 13:38 +0100, Richard Hughes 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

As a data point all distros don't use the same prefix for a package. For
example, in Fedora, (most of) glib is installed into / rather than /usr.
Also varies a lot with things from coreutils etc. etc. And IIRC SUSE
used to install both GNOME and KDE into /opt.

       David