[packagekit] Triggering EULA dialog?

[Dan Kegel]

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett
<dmacvicar at suse.de> wrote:
> Dan Kegel wrote:
>> Egads.  You mean it's not even inside the package?
>> If somebody takes the .rpm elsewhere, and installs it,
>> the EULA won't be displayed?
>> That's surprising.
>
> Sure, it is not an rpm feature, but a package manager feature.
> Also features like the package manager only displaying updates that
> require a reboot or restart of the package management engine are usually
> on top of rpm, and exposed in the metadata.

Does the same thing go for flagging a package as containing
a security update?

It would be nice if this kind of metadata was standardized
and incorporated into .rpm, so all the information needed
to properly install a package was packaged up in the package
file (which I believe was the original intent of packages,
hence the name :-)

That would also make it easier for ISVs trying to maintain a
repo.   At Google, we maintain one for our client apps,
and we've been told we're missing a trick or two
in the metadata.  It's quite a burden to discover how
to run the various flavors of repositories correctly.
- Dan