[packagekit] Res: One click install support in PackageKit

[Richard Hughes]

On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 11:28 +0200, Thibauld Favre wrote:
> 2009/4/1 Debayan Banerjee <debayanin at gmail.com>:
> > The best way you can do that is by accepting to be my mentor! I have
> > submitted my proposal to "Fedora Project & JBoss.org (Red Hat)".
> > Perhaps you would be interested in it.
> 
> I'd be glad to be your mentor for this project if everybody here
> agrees (Richard ?).

There's a lot of handwavy stuff here at the moment ("plugable
policies"), also they'll need to be much more buy in from other distros.

> I've looked into Dorian Perkins code and gave it a try, it is a great
> start but still very early stage. In my opinion, we'd better begin
> coding things in python (leveraging python-packagekit bindings)

I think C is fine, and for me, preferable.

> 1. Replacing the "apt" backend used by "apturl" by a packagekit backend.
> => objective: being able to use "pkurl" (?) as a simple protocol
> handler in firefox to perform 1 click installation from firefox (by
> using links like href="pk:<package1>,<package2>")
> 
> 2. Adding oci file format support to "pkurl".
> => objective: being able to register a new mime type in the system to
> have pkurl used to perform 1 click installation from any webbrowser
> for links like href="http://mydomain.com/file.oci"

Why is this better than using a catalog
[http://www.packagekit.org/pk-faq.html#catalogs]?

Richard.