[packagekit] PackageKit & Debian, Was: External dependencies, DeviceKit-power and GNOME Power Manager

[Josselin Mouette]

Le mercredi 26 novembre 2008 à 14:05 +0000, Richard Hughes a écrit :
> On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 14:40 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > But on the other side, we are not going to embrace a tool that does not
> > have this functionality.
> 
> Sure, I'm not forcing you to. If you're just interested in replacing
> synaptic then PackageKit probably isn't the framework you need. 

That’s very unfortunate, since it is very close to it and most of the
architecture clearly fits the needs.

> If
> you're looking at the end users, and what they are trying to do with
> their computer, it probably is the framework you should be using.

I do not think a tool like Synaptic should not be usable by “end
users” (whatever you think an end user is). Just because right now it is
not, doesn’t mean such a tool couldn’t be usable for everyone.

> > So this really means that we will have to develop and maintain a fork if
> > we want to integrate PackageKit in our desktop.
> 
> You're free to fork PackageKit and do whatever you want. I just think
> you might have misunderestimated the amount of work this would require.

I don’t think I am underestimating it, and this is why I’m very
reluctant to do it. In the long term, it is balanced by the cost of
maintaining update-manager and synaptic, but we are far from being able
to replace them.

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