[packagekit] RFC - easy install/remove

[Peter Nash]

Duncan,

So, you mean that in theory it could be done... user could have an easy way to revert the 1-click install operation?

something like an 1click uninstall like mentioned in http://opensuse.awardspace.com/

this would be very cool... but i'm getting the idea that PK won't make such feature available soon :(

maybe this could be integrated into yast2 on OpenSuse...

I really hate to have to handle all those packages... i tried to remove an application once and i may say that i see it as a very big pile of paper from which i can't read any... LOL (i'm keeping all the software i installed once, installed!!!)

One week ago i contacted John Thomas (the webmaster of the link above) but he said that there is nothing currently being worked on, ATM, as far as he knows of...

I really would like something like this... and if it was on PK would be just perfect... I'm thinking about giving a shot at Ubuntu (CNR)... but i don't like much of Gnome... OpenSuse would be the right choice for me... if it wasn't for this lack






----- Original Message ----
From: Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett <dmacvicar at suse.de>
To: PackageKit users and developers list <packagekit at lists.freedesktop.org>
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 9:59:25 AM
Subject: Re: [packagekit] RFC - easy install/remove

Sebastian Heinlein wrote:
> You don't only want to remove the first level/direct dependencies, but
> also all recursive ones. So this is should clearly be done by the
> backend. Even handling all direct dependencies is out of scope for
> packagekit itself.
>  
And it is also a "best effort" operation and not a predictable operation.

in ZYpp, since we got package history support, and we record if the
package comes from a user or solver
decision, it may be possible to handcraft some algorithms that given the
package state plus this history can figure out
what software may be proposed for removal.

Duncan
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