[packagekit] Res: One click install support in PackageKit

[Dan Kegel]

On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 3:12 AM, Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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]?

Why not support both?  Suse's already using oci files, see
http://software.opensuse.org

(BTW you might want to call them .ymp files rather than oci
files; suse uses the suffix .ymp at that site, and oci is
already taken by oracle for its driver interface.)